NEW DELHI: Following a warning from the UN agency that the medication may cause kidney damage, two Indian officials said on Thursday that India is awaiting World Health Organization proof of a connection between an Indian cough syrup and the deaths of scores of children in the Gambia.A blow to India’s reputation as a “pharmacy of the world” that provides medicines to all continents, notably Africa, is the death of 66 youngsters in the West African nation.
According on the information that is now available, “urgent investigation of the problem has already been taken up,” according to one of the two health ministry employees who talked to Reuters on the ministry’s behalf but did not want to be named.India was awaiting a report from the WHO establishing “causal relation between death with the medical products in question” and other facts, adding that “while all necessary steps will be taken in the case.”
