"…About two million improperly stored vaccines were sold around the country from an overheated, dilapidated storeroom. The main suspect in the case is a hospital pharmacist from Heze who had been convicted of trading in illegal vaccines in 2009 and was doing it again two years later. Many parents said they were especially alarmed that nearly a year had elapsed from the time the police uncovered the illicit trade and the time the public first learned about it in February..."

A year after the scandal was revealed, families by tainted vaccines "have called on the government to take steps to help them, saying they were unable to obtain compensation for their health problems."