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Officials in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, have collected samples of a cough syrup tied to the tragic deaths of several children. The samples came from a local pharmaceutical unit on Friday and are now heading to a lab for urgent testing, according to Drug Inspector Sharad Kumar Jain.
The trouble started when a group of kids in nearby Chhindwara fell sick with colds and coughs. Doctors sent them to a hospital in Nagpur for care, but sadly, many didn’t make it. Investigators quickly traced the issue to a cold relief syrup supplied by a Jabalpur pharma company.
Jain explained that the company owner admitted buying 660 bottles of the syrup. They sold 594 bottles to three distributors in Chhindwara, leaving 66 on hand. Authorities grabbed 16 bottles for testing and banned sales of the rest. A special team is now digging deeper, and the drug inspector ordered any leftover stock frozen at those distributor firms to prevent more harm.
This comes after six children in Chhindwara district died from kidney failure between September 4 and 26. Families shared heartbreaking details: the kids first battled fevers, coughs, and colds, but their kidneys soon failed, leading to rapid worsening.
Chhindwara’s Chief Medical and Health Officer, Dr. Naresh Gunnade, told reporters that fever cases among children in Parasia popped up as early as August 22. The first three deaths happened September 4 to 7 at a private hospital in Nagpur. Those kids had been treated locally before the transfer—they never went to the Parasia government hospital.
To handle the crisis, officials set up a dedicated 10-bed ward at the government hospital. Three more young lives were lost after that, bringing the total to six, all linked to kidney complications.
Central and state experts, including teams from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), rushed in to investigate. They gathered human samples, water tests, and other evidence, sending everything for analysis. Reports are still coming in, but early checks on some human samples show no major red flags, Dr. Gunnade said.
As the probe continues, families and health officials in Madhya Pradesh are on high alert over this cough syrup outbreak and child deaths from kidney failure in Chhindwara.
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