The deaths of 69 children from acute kidney injury in Gambia are linked to four cough syrups made in India and imported into the west African country via a US-based pharmaceutical company, Gambian police said in a preliminary investigation report on ...
“unacceptable” levels of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, which can be toxic, in four products made by New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Atlanta-based Atlantic Pharmaceuticals Company Ltd, which has permission to export medicines into Gambia, ordered a combined total of 50,000 bottles of those syrups, according to the police report. Gambian authorities launched a probe in September after doctors in July noticed that a number of children developed symptoms of kidney failure after taking a locally sold paracetamol syrup used to treat fevers.
The contaminated Maiden Pharma syrups have so far only been distributed in Gambia, although they may have arrived elsewhere through informal markets.
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