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Jan
13
2024
By KRISHNA N. DAS
India pledges ‘appropriate action’ after completing cough syrup bribe probe

India pledges ‘appropriate action’ after completing cough syrup bribe probe

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INDIA will take "appropriate action" after completing an investigation into a complaint that a drug regulator helped switch samples of cough syrup linked to the death of children in Gambia in return for a bribe, two officials said. The World Health Organization (WHO) linked the syrups made by India's Maiden Pharmaceuticals to the deaths of 70 children in 2022, though India's government said subsequent tests at an Indian government laboratory showed the syrups were not toxic. Maiden, whose factory is based in Haryana state, denies wrongdoing. Reuters reported in June last year that a lawyer named Yashpal accused Haryana's drug controller, Manmohan…
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Dec
24
2023
By KRISHNA N. DAS
Cough syrup deaths: India denies tempering with tests

Cough syrup deaths: India denies tempering with tests

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INDIA'S Maiden Pharmaceuticals, whose cough syrups have been linked to the deaths of children in Gambia, denied it had tampered with test samples or bribed officials to do so, as alleged in a complaint under investigation by local health officials. An investigator with the state of Haryana's Food and Drug Administration told Reuters on Friday he was close to finishing a probe into whether a state drug regulator was bribed to switch samples, tested by the Indian government, that contradicted the World Health Organization's findings of toxic substances in the cough syrups. "I have never changed the sample," Maiden founder Naresh Kumar Goyal…
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Jul
01
2023
By EDWARD MCALLISTER
Exclusive: Gambia families sue Indian drugmaker after cough syrup deaths

Exclusive: Gambia families sue Indian drugmaker after cough syrup deaths

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THE relatives of 20 Gambian children whose deaths were linked to toxic cough syrups made in India have sued Indian drugmaker Maiden Pharmaceuticals as well as local authorities in the West African country, according to a case filed and seen by Reuters. The filing, which has not yet been made public, opens a new front in the fight for compensation and justice after at least 70 children, mostly babies and toddlers, died from acute kidney injury in Gambia last year. The filing was presented to the High Court of Gambia on Friday. In it, the families seek about $250,000 in compensation for…
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Jun
15
2023
By KRISHNA N. DAS
Gambia syrup deaths: India probes bribery claims

Gambia syrup deaths: India probes bribery claims

NEWS
INDIAN authorities have launched an inquiry into an allegation that a local pharmaceutical regulator, in return for a bribe, helped switch samples of cough syrups that the World Health Organization (WHO) had linked to the deaths of children in Gambia before the samples were tested at an Indian laboratory, according to two government officials and documents reviewed by Reuters. In an April 29 letter to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Haryana state reviewed by Reuters, a lawyer named Yashpal accused the state's drug controller, Manmohan Taneja, of taking a bribe of 50 million rupees ($605,419) from local manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceuticals…
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Jun
03
2023
By PAP SAINE and EDWARD MCALLISTER
Cough syrup deaths: Gambia mulls legal action

Cough syrup deaths: Gambia mulls legal action

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GAMBIA has hired a U.S. law firm to explore legal action after a government-backed investigation found that contaminated medicines from India were "very likely" to have caused the deaths of children last year, the justice minister told Reuters. At least 70 children in Gambia, most under 5 years old, died from acute kidney injury between June and October. Local doctors suspected cough syrups imported from India were the likely culprit, Reuters reported earlier this year, and tests by the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the presence of lethal toxins, sparking a global hunt for contaminated medicines. Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow…
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Jan
25
2023
By The African Mirror
Gambia cough syrup deaths: WHO urges ‘immediate action’

Gambia cough syrup deaths: WHO urges ‘immediate action’

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JENNIFER RIGBY THE World Health Organization (WHO) has called for "immediate and concerted action" to protect children from contaminated medicines after a spate of child deaths linked to cough syrups last year. In 2022, more than 300 children - mainly aged under 5 - in Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan died of acute kidney injury, in deaths that were associated with contaminated medicines, the WHO said in a statement on Monday. The medicines, over-the-counter cough syrups, had high levels of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol. "These contaminants are toxic chemicals used as industrial solvents and antifreeze agents that can be fatal…
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