In what can be described as an anatomy of the country’s health sector, Gambia’s Minister of Health, Dr Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, has on Wednesday described how health experts were able to establish the link between the pathology developed by the affected kids and India-made cough syrups. “As the clinical correlation[Read More…]
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Gambia Says Child Deaths Linked To Cough Syrup Have Risen To 70
Gambia’s government on Friday said the number of child deaths from acute kidney injury, thought to be linked to Indian-made cough syrups, has risen to 70 from a previous toll of 69. President Adama Barrow gave the update at an emergency cabinet meeting which he convened on Thursday to discuss[Read More…]
India Tells Gambia It Is Probing Childrens’ Deaths Linked To India-Made Drugs
New Delhi is “seriously investigating” the deaths of 69 children in Gambia in the wake of a report that provisionally linked the fatalities to Indian-made products, the South Asian nation’s foreign minister told his Gambian counterpart on Thursday. Indian health authorities announced a production halt at domestic company Maiden Pharmaceuticals’s[Read More…]
India Finds Serious Violations At Firm Linked To Gambia Deaths, Suspends Production
Indian health authorities said on Wednesday they had halted all production of New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals after a WHO report that its cough and cold syrups exported to Gambia may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children there. Known as a “pharmacy of the world”, India supplies 45% of all[Read More…]
India Halts Cough Syrup Production At Factory Linked To Gambia Deaths
Indian authorities have halted production of cough syrup at a factory of Maiden Pharmaceuticals, a state minister said on Wednesday, after a WHO report that the medicine may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia. The health minister in Haryana state, Anil Vij, told Reuters partner[Read More…]
Türkiye Builds Medical Oxygen Plant In Gambia
The plant, which is the first one of its kind for hospitals in The Gambia, will meet the daily oxygen needs of the hospital with its daily oxygen generation capacity of 100 cylinders. The opening ceremony held for the plant at Ndemban Hospital in the coastal town of Bakau, 16km[Read More…]
Gambia Police Link Child Deaths To Cough Syrup Imported By U.S. Firm
The deaths of 69 children from acute kidney injury in Gambia is linked to four cough syrups made in India and imported into the West African country via a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, the Gambian police said in a preliminary investigation report on Tuesday. World Health Organization (WHO) investigators had already[Read More…]
Maiden Pharmaceutical ‘Exported These Products Only To Gambia’ – Indian Ministry Of Health
The India government broke silence Thursday over the four contaminated syrups that caused the death of 66 children, saying these products were only sold to Gambia. “From the preliminary enquiry of Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), it has been made out that Maiden Pharmaceutical Limited, Sonepat, Haryana is a[Read More…]
India Probes Deaths In Gambia Linked To Indian-Made Cough Syrup
India is investigating the deaths of dozens of children in The Gambia that the World Health Organization (WHO) said may be linked to a cough syrup made in the South Asian nation, two people from India’s health ministry have told the Reuters news agency. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on[Read More…]
Rash Of Child Deaths In Gambia Linked To Cough Syrups Made In India – WHO
The deaths of dozens of young children in Gambia from acute kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The findings, announced by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, followed tests on several medicinal syrups[Read More…]
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