SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA: Orphaned during a coup in his homeland Guinea, teenager Moussa Camara took to sea in a wooden boat with 240 other migrants, enduring an 11-day voyage, half of it without food and fresh water, before reaching the Canary Islands. Twenty people
NEW DELHI: India has suspended a drugmaker's manufacturing licence after the World Health Organization flagged contamination in its cough syrups found in the Mashall Islands and Micronesia in April, the government told the parliament on Wednesday. Indian regulators are inspecting drugmakers after cough syrups made in
New Delhi: India will make tests mandatory for cough syrups before they are exported, a government notice showed on Tuesday, after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia and Uzbekistan. Any cough syrup must have a certificate of analysis
New Delhi: Indian police arrested three employees of a pharmaceutical firm whose cough syrups were linked to the deaths of 19 children in Uzbekistan, as the country looks to recover from recent setbacks to the industry. The arrests were made after tests by an Indian government
New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has contradicted the findings and observations of the committee formed by the Indian government to probe the deaths of 70 children in the Gambia which were linked to syrups made by an Indian firm, Maiden Pharmaceuticals. On January 24,
Mumbai: India’s pharmaceuticals regulator has begun inspecting some drug factories across the country, the health ministry said on Wednesday, as it tries to ensure high standards after an Indian company’s cough and cold syrups were linked to deaths in Gambia. India is known as the “pharmacy
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it stands by its action after India said that four cough syrups linked to child deaths in The Gambia complied with specifications when tested at home.