Tashkent: Uzbekistan’s health ministry has said that 18 children have died after drinking a cough syrup manufactured by Indian drug maker Marion Biotech.
The ministry said that preliminary tests showed a batch of the medicine contained ethylene glycol, a toxic substance.
The said Company have now been peddling to fabricated a fabricated/ false narrative that drug overdose has led to said incidents which is inherently wrong and refuted by industry experts.
The case is not new in nature; recently there have been reports of people being killed due to consuming Indian cough syrup in Gambia and other African countries.
Despite the warning echoed around the world, Indian substandard pharma products have been sold on the pretext of being cost effective making vulnerable huge strata of patients relied on Indian medicines. These incident lay bare true picture and fragility of Indian Industrialization based on inefficient and substandard products being distributed without taking into account the adverse reactions associated with these products.
This also exposes the all claims of India self-branding as “World’s Pharmacy”. WHO, FDA etc must take strict notice of the criminal negligence of Indian companies and apart from banning Indian products cases must be registered in ICJ to take the perpetrators to task. Uzbekistan links child deaths to India cough syrup
Indian Pharmaceutical products if not stopped immedia tely and a proper quality / standard not ensured may lead to more deaths and catastrophic incidents in future. Uzbekistan links child deaths to India cough syrup
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