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Jammu: Poisonous Syrup Kills 11 Children in Udhampur
The manufacturing license of Digital Vision has been withdrawn and around 5,500 units of the drug have been recalled from eight states.
Sagrika Kissu 27 Feb 2020
On November 25, 2019, Ashok Kumar, resident of Ramnagar area of Jammu region’s Udhampur district took his three-year old ailing son to the local chemist Mohinder Singh’s Jamwal Medical Hall Shop. Kumar’s son, Anirudh, was suffering from acute cold and chest infection.
“Singh gave us Cold Best-PC syrup and amoxicillin,” Kumar told NewsClick.
Anirudh’s health declined within a week of consuming the prescribed medicine and finally he died at PGIMER, Chandigarh on January 10, 2020. “It started with vomiting and fever. We were referred from one hospital to another in Jammu and finally to PGI Chandigarh where he died because of renal failure,” Anirudh’s father, Kumar said. Kumar was the first to approach the private “registered medical practitioner” for the medicine.
What followed next was death of 10 children after consuming the same drug as prescribed to Anirudh.
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The manufacturing license of Digital Vision has been withdrawn and around 5,500 units of the drug have been recalled from eight states.
Sagrika Kissu 27 Feb 2020
On November 25, 2019, Ashok Kumar, resident of Ramnagar area of Jammu region’s Udhampur district took his three-year old ailing son to the local chemist Mohinder Singh’s Jamwal Medical Hall Shop. Kumar’s son, Anirudh, was suffering from acute cold and chest infection.
“Singh gave us Cold Best-PC syrup and amoxicillin,” Kumar told NewsClick.
Anirudh’s health declined within a week of consuming the prescribed medicine and finally he died at PGIMER, Chandigarh on January 10, 2020. “It started with vomiting and fever. We were referred from one hospital to another in Jammu and finally to PGI Chandigarh where he died because of renal failure,” Anirudh’s father, Kumar said. Kumar was the first to approach the private “registered medical practitioner” for the medicine.
What followed next was death of 10 children after consuming the same drug as prescribed to Anirudh.
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