Doctors have raised the alarm over substandard drugs in the market that are killing thousands of people globally every year.
According to a paper published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, doctors called for concerted effort to combat a "pandemic of bad drugs that kill 250,000 children a year" after taking shoddy or outright fake drugs intended to treat malaria and pneumonia alone.
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