Lab tests conducted on the cough syrups found 'unacceptable amounts' of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, whose toxic impact includes 'acute kidney injury which may lead to death,' WHO says.
When Wuri Bailo Keita's two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with malaria and sent home with a prescription for a paracetamol syrup.The infant is just one of 69 Gambian children to die of acute kidney failure since July in a series of cases linked to four Indian-made cough syrups.
Barrow also promised to update drugs-related laws and praised the work of the health ministry in preventing further deaths.But fear and anger are mounting, and the death toll is still rising. A member of the Gambian Red Cross looks through sacks of collected cough syrups in Banjul, The Gambia, on October 06, 2022. Indian authorities are investigating cough syrups made by a local pharmaceutical company after the World Health Organisation said they could be responsible for the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.
Domestic critics accuse Barrow of having failed to protect the public and standing by watchdogs who should have been sacked.
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