Explainer: Why cough syrup is proving fatal for kids
No lessons learnt from tragedies, systemic inertia that allows contamination in drugs to go unchecked — the lax regulatory system in the country is back in focus following a spate of deaths in MP, elsewhere
According to the WHO, both DEG and EG can prove deadly. The harmful effects include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, inability to pass urine, headache, altered mental state, and acute kidney injury, which may lead to death. Reuters
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