The Gambia’s health authorities decided to remove paracetamol medications from sale at the outset of the crisis because they thought they might be to blame for the deaths of children.
According to Reuters, the World Health Organization’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that the agency is looking into acute kidney injury deaths alongside the Indian drug regulator and the cough syrup manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceutical, based in New Delhi.
According to two individuals, the organisation notified the Comptroller General of Drugs in India of the deaths late last month. The regulator then reportedly initiated a probe with government authorities in tandem with the WHO investigation.
According to the two sources, the corporation solely produced and shipped the beverage to the West African nation.
Neither emails nor phone calls from Reuters requesting comment were answered by Maiden Pharmaceutical.
The two sources said the Indian government had asked the World Health Organization to share its report linking the deaths to cough syrup and would take “all required steps in this regard. “.
The cough medicine accused of killing children, Paracetamol, is innocent.
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