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Articles for tag: Children, cough, die, indian, syrup

November 21, 2025

News Desk

How children die from Indian cough syrup

A bottle of Coldrif cough syrup, which has been linked to the deaths of several children in Parasia, Madhya Pradesh, India. — Reuters Indian officials are investigating whether safety gaps in the supply of a pharmaceutical ingredient are to blame for the contamination of cough syrup that has killed at least 24 children in recent months, according to three people familiar with the matter. The three health and drug safety officials from the state of Tamil Nadu said Reuters believe the solvent used to make a batch of Coldrif cough syrup could have been contaminated with a toxic chemical at

November 21, 2025

News Desk

How children die from Indian cough syrup

Drums are placed outside the Sresan pharmaceutical facility, whose Coldrif cough syrup has been linked to the deaths of 17 children in Madhya Pradesh, in Chennai, India, October 7, 2025. — Reuters Indian officials are investigating whether safety gaps in the supply of a pharmaceutical ingredient are to blame for the contamination of cough syrup that has killed at least 24 children in recent months, according to three people familiar with the matter. The three health and drug safety officials from Tamil Nadu state told Reuters they believe the solvent used to make a batch of Coldrif cough syrup could

October 8, 2025

News Desk

Who asks India to check if cough syrup is extracted

A state health employee hangs a notice outside the Sresan pharmaceutical plant, whose Coldrif Cough syrup has been linked to the deaths of 17 children in Madhya Pradesh, Chennai, India, October 7, 2025. – Reuters Toxic cough syrup associated with deaths of 17 children under five years. Tests show that Indian pharmacists have failed to test rules. Gujarat’s state finds shortages in two other cough syrup manufacturers. The Indian authorities informed the public to avoid two more cough syrup brands on Wednesday after the deaths of 17 children under the age of five associated with a toxic ingredient and addressed

July 12, 2024

News Desk

Whooping cough outbreak in the United Kingdom claims the lives of nine infants

Nine infants have died since the pertussis outbreak began in November last year, according to figures released by the UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) on Thursday. In the first five months of 2024, 7,599 children and adults have been infected with the disease, which affects the lungs and breathing tubes and spreads easily, the data showed. “Young babies are at the highest risk of serious complications and death from whooping cough,” the UKHSA said in its warning on Thursday. More than half of those infected are people aged 15 and over with mild disease, the agency said, adding that high

June 13, 2024

News Desk

Salaried, self-employed taxpayers to cough up Rs 225 billion

Islamabad: The federal government increased the tax rate for both salaried and non-salaried taxpayers in the federal budget for the next fiscal year, imposing a cumulative burden of Rs75 billion on salaried and Rs150 billion on non-salaried individuals. The budget proposed a maximum tax rate of 35% for employees and 45% for the self-employed. The minimum threshold of Rs 50,000 monthly income had been retained for both categories, while the number of tax slabs will also remain at 6. Salaried persons in the first tax slab with income up to Rs 600,000 per annum or Rs 50,000 per month had

December 23, 2023

News Desk

Indian company denies tampering with tests in cough syrup death probe

NEW DELHI: India’s Maiden Pharmaceuticals, whose cough syrups have been linked to the deaths of children in Gambia, denied on Saturday that it falsified test samples or bribed officials to do so, according to a complaint under investigation by local health officials. A Haryana State Food and Drug Administration researcher said Reuters on Friday was nearing completion of an investigation into whether a state drug regulator was bribed to change samples, tested by the Indian government, that contradicted the World Health Organization’s findings of toxic substances in cough syrups. “I have never changed the sample,” said Maiden founder Naresh Kumar

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