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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Gambian Lawmakers Commit To Shine Light On AKI Deaths
Gambian lawmakers have reiterated their commitment to leave no stone unturned as they passed a motion to investigate the death of 70 children due to contaminated India-made syrups. Tabling the motion during the third extra-ordinary session of 2022 Legislative year, Minority Leader, Alhagie S. Darboe, reminded National Assembly members about[Read More…]
Parliament To Hold Extra-Ordinary Session On AKI Crisis
Gambia’s lawmaking body is set to convene an extra-ordinary session tomorrow on the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) crisis after the loss of 70 young lives due to contaminated India-made cough syrups. A news dispatch issued on Monday by the Clerk of the National Assembly and seen by JollofNews indicates that[Read More…]
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…]
Editorial: Barrow Needs To Soften His Heart!
At a time when Gambians expect compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic and steady leadership following the country’s traumatic experience of 66 preventable child deaths, President Adama Barrow has once again shown them that he cares little when it comes to their heartaches. Sadly but killingly true is the fact that Mr. Barrow[Read More…]
JusticeFor66+ Campaign Holds Presser
Public Statement The JusticeFor66+ Campaign notes that the Gambia Government has announced that the total number of child deaths from these fake syrups is now 69. However, we are using the figure 66 being the original figure that prompted this campaign and knowing that we are not yet at the[Read More…]
UDP Mourns The Deaths Of 69 Children & Decries The Supercilious Response Of The Gambia Gov’t
UDP mourns the tragic and avoidable deaths of 69 Gambian Children from Acute Kidney Injury-AKI, our hearts and prayers are with bereaved families. This news is incredibly sad and devastating for the United Democratic Party. We wish to place on record our sincere condolences to all those who lost their[Read More…]
Candlelighters Call For Justice For The ‘Gambian 66’
Candlelighters converged Friday night on Westfield Junction, Serrekunda, to hold a vigil and prayers for the loss of 66 young lives due to acute kidney injuries (AKI). “As young people, it is time that we get up and stand up,” activist Neneh Freda Gomez told a group of ‘patriotic Gambians’[Read More…]
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