{"id":131013,"date":"2022-12-29T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131013"},"modified":"2022-12-29T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:57:24","slug":"uzbekistan-says-18-children-die-after-consuming-india-made-syrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/12\/29\/uzbekistan-says-18-children-die-after-consuming-india-made-syrup\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan says 18 children die after consuming India-made syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

At least 18 children have died after consuming a syrup manufactured by Indian drugmaker Marion Biotech Pvt Ltd, Uzbekistan\u2019s Ministry of Health says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ministry said 18 of 21 children who took the Doc-1 Max syrup while suffering from an acute respiratory disease died after consuming it. It is marketed on the company\u2019s website as a treatment for cold and flu symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A batch of the syrup contained ethylene glycol, which the ministry said is a toxic substance. The syrup was imported into Uzbekistan by Quramax Medical LLC, the ministry said in its statement released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also said the syrup was given to children at home without a doctor\u2019s prescription, either by their parents or on the advice of pharmacists, and at doses that exceeded the standard dose for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not immediately clear whether all or any of the children had consumed the suspect batch or had consumed more than the standard dose, or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indian health ministry officials said they were aware of the report from Uzbekistan but declined to comment, according to a report by India\u2019s Hindu newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India on Tuesday launched inspections of some drug factories across the country to ensure high quality standards, the Reuters news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Uzbek fatalities follow similar ones in The Gambia, where the deaths of at least 70 children have been blamed on cough and cold syrups made by New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Both India\u2019s government and the company have denied the medicines were at fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India is known as the \u201dpharmacy of the world\u201d, and its pharmaceutical exports have more than doubled over the past decade to $24.5bn in the past fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Uzbek health ministry said it had dismissed seven employees for negligence for not analysing the deaths in a timely manner and not taking necessary measures. It said it had taken disciplinary measures against some specialists\u201d, without specifying what role the specialists had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also withdrawing the Doc-1 Max tablets and syrups from all pharmacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source – Al Jazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Adaderana At least 18 children have died after consuming a syrup manufactured by Indian drugmaker Marion Biotech Pvt Ltd, Uzbekistan\u2019s Ministry of Health says. The ministry said 18 of 21 children who took the Doc-1 Max syrup while suffering from an acute respiratory disease died after consuming it. It is marketed on the company\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}