ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of children around the world have died due to substandard medicines of Indian pharmaceutical companies. The World Health Organization had also issued a global alert on substandard Indian medicines in December last year.
However, according to new data, hundreds of children died from substandard Indian medicines in African countries including Uzbekistan and Indonesia from 2022 till now.
Indonesia has imposed a ban on the import of all kinds of medicines from India after the deaths of 99 children
Due to the substandard drugs of Indian pharmaceutical companies, 18 children died in Uzbekistan due to toxic Indian drugs.
Indonesia has imposed a ban on the import of all types of medicines from India after the deaths of 99 children, Indian-made cough syrup killed 69 children in the African country of Gambia.
According to the British news agency, India also paid a bribe of 60,000 dollars to hide the deaths of children, while Liberia and Nigeria confiscated more than 250 containers of syrup from Indian companies.
According to India Herald children died due to adulterated cough syrup happened in Cameroon. It is suspected that the drug, which turned fatal, was manufactured in India. In the Central African country of Cameroon, children have been losing their lives for some time now. A preliminary investigation by the country’s medical authorities revealed that coughing was the cause of their deaths. It is reported that the manufacturing license number of Nature Cold Cough Medicine has been matched with a company in India.
https://www.indiaherald.com/Crime/Read/994601751/Death-of-children-due-to-cough-medicine
Indian Express reported in Aug 2916 that about 400 students of various schools of Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal fell ill on Thursday after being administered medicine in view of the National Deworming Day.District chief medical officer (health) Prakash Mridha said reports of school children falling ill was reported from Moynaguri, Dhupguri, Moamari, Jalpaiguri and other places. About 300 children have been admitted to different hospitals in the district and state Tourism Minister Goutam Deb and Mridha himself visited the children.
All of them complained of uneasiness, sweating, stomach ache and vomiting. Many of them rushed back home and were taken to hospitals by their family members, while many were shifted by the teachers. However, the condition of none of them is serious, sources in the hospitals said.Mridha said the deworming medicine was instructed to be given to the children after their midday meal in school and the reason for their falling ill is being probed.Deworming tablets are given to children to remove worms from their bodies. Parasitic worms known as soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomes cause various infections.
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