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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

November 11, 2025

News Desk

A lesson for Pakistan in Indian sweet syrup death

Rakhi Matan holds bottles of cough syrup in her palm. This is what she gave her children two weeks ago when they were feeling sick. — IPS When 23 children died in India’s Madhya Pradesh after consuming tainted cough syrup in early September, the news soon registered across borders. In Pakistan – where self-medication is rampant and bottles of syrup are household staples – the tragedy hits dangerously close to home. Many in Pakistan are unaware that these over-the-counter sweet syrups can be fatal. In the recent Indian case, children – all under six – died of kidney failure after

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

January 11, 2024

News Desk

DRAP recalls syrup after ‘poisonous impurities’ found

DRAP is launching a nationwide investigation to trace the importer who supplied the raw material, official says A cough medicine is poured into this picture. — Reuters Propylene glycol was imported by a local company from Thailand “Today we ordered the recall of Delorvin syrup,” says DRAP. DRAP suspects industrial grade material added to the raw material. ISLAMABAD: After detecting “poisonous impurities”, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has recalled a cough syrup and imported raw material used in it, The news reported on Thursday. The “poisonous impurities” were detected in the cough syrup during tests at the Central

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

December 22, 2023

News Desk

India investigates bribery claim in toxic syrup tests

India is nearing completion of its investigation into a “comprehensive and exhaustive” allegation that a state drug regulator, in exchange for a bribe, helped change samples of cough syrups linked to child deaths in Gambia before testing of samples in India. the researcher told Reuters. While the World Health Organization (WHO) linked India’s Maiden Pharmaceuticals syrups to the deaths of 70 children in the African country last year, India’s government says tests at an Indian government laboratory showed the syrups were not toxic. Maiden said she had “done nothing wrong”. Reuters reported in June that in an April 29 letter

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