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African Countries on Alert After Deaths Linked to Cough Syrup

The recent deaths of over 300 children in Africa and Asia have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn about the use of "substandard and falsified" medical products. The organisation called for more efforts to protect children from contaminated medicine.

The Managing Director of the Liberia Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Authority, Dr. Keturah C. Smith-Chineh, has disclosed that the Authority that the product did not pass safety tests. 256 cartons were quarantined last year, after a failed physical inspection at a Quality Control Lab since October 2022.

Para Clear Paracetamol syrup, was manufactured in India, by a pharmaceutical company known as "Curis Life Sciences PVT. Ltd. She further informed the public that an investigation conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) also revealed that the Para Clear medical product poses threats to the lives of children similar to the Gambian scenario.

Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said last year that measures have been put at various ports of entry into the country to prevent entry of the contaminated cough syrups while officials at the Rwanda Food and Drug Authority (RFDA) investigated last year and found that the four paediatric medicines that were recently found unsafe by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in The Gambia have never entered the Rwandan market.

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