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The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than twenty syrups from India and Indonesia among the contaminated drugs that allegedly caused the death of some 300 children
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than twenty syrups from India and Indonesia among the contaminated drugs that allegedly caused the death of some 300 children in the past few months in the Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan.
“To date, this situation has affected more than 20 products with two countries of origin (India and Indonesia) and more than 15 different manufacturers, announced on Tuesday EFE This was announced by WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier.
“All syrup-based products (acetaminophen syrup, cough syrup or vitamin syrup),” the source added, noting that number may increase as the investigation progresses.
Last year, WHO issued several warnings about the presence of toxic ingredients in medicines related to death of about 300 children in the Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistana wave of contaminated food that also reached Micronesia and the Marshall Islands last April, despite no deaths being reported.
Most of these deaths occurred in Indonesia, where police announced in January that a local middleman counterfeit and adulterated chemicals intended for industrial use to give the impression that they are used in pharmaceuticals, which has led to their use in syrups that are suspected of poisoning more than 200 children in the Asian archipelago.
A police investigation revealed that the company CV Samudra Chemical was used to sell diethyl glycol and ethylene glycol. – chemicals found in suspected preparations – for industrial use, as if it were propylene glycol intended for pharmaceutical use, with repackaging and alleged falsification of the contents to send it to distributors.
In that country, twenty-five families of child victims have sued the government and several local pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers. in a trial that began earlier this year.
In addition, several contaminated syrups associated with the death of at least 70 children in the Gambia and another 21 in Uzbekistan they came from India, after which the Indian authorities investigated and ordered the temporary suspension of the laboratories involved.
Added to this was a warning issued in February last year by US health authorities in connection with an alleged link between an ophthalmic solution manufactured in India and a series of eye infectionspermanent loss of vision and one death have been reported in an American country.
However, the check made by Indian toilets ruled out that the ophthalmic solution was contaminated.
In this regard, Lindmeier assured that the WHO “up to date with media reports about potentially contaminated syrups in countries other than those mentioned above.”
Indian government tightened measures this month send medicines abroad, forcing cough syrup exporters to test their samples at government labs before sending them abroad.
A measure aimed at restore India’s popularity as the “pharmacy of the world” due to the large-scale production of low-cost generics and active ingredients, and the second-highest number of FDA-approved manufacturing plants after the United States.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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