Samples of paracetamol syrup --- used as fever and pain medication --- taken for quality assessment from the Noida district hospital were declared substandard and therefore “unfit” for use by the Gautam Budh Nagar district food and drug safety department, the state’s health department said in a statement on Thursday, adding that the product had been ordered to be recalled …
Gambia on Tuesday ordered importers and shops to suspend sales of all brands of paracetamol syrup while the government investigates a suspected link between the medicine and the deaths of dozens of young children. Last Thursday, the head of the West African country’s health service said it had launched the probe after a spike in cases of acute kidney injury …
At least 28 children died from kidney failure linked to a paracemol syrup but ministry said it could also be E. coli. The government of The Gambia is launching a probe into the recent deaths of dozens of young children from kidney failure and possible links to a paracetamol syrup, the country’s health director said. “Dozens of children have died …
