Congress, BJP trade barbs over cough syrup-related deaths of children in Uzbekistan and Gambia
The HinduThe Congress and the BJP sparred over India-made cough syrups following an incident in Uzbekistan over which the Uzbek government linked the death of 18 children to the cough syrup. Hitting back, the BJP’s IT in-charge Amit Malviya tweeted: ”The death of children in Gambia had nothing to do with the consumption of cough syrup made in India. Shameful… https://t.co/BKVQw5qskI — Amit Malviya December 29, 2022 Officials said that the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation has initiated a probe in connection with the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan allegedly linked to a cough syrup manufactured by an Indian pharmaceutical company. However, on the reports linking the deaths of children in Gambia to an India-made cough syrup, the Drugs Controller General of India had claimed that the World Health Organization drew a premature link.