Gwalior: A government hospital in Madhya Pradesh has come under scrutiny after a woman alleged that worms were found in a bottle of antibiotic medicine administered to her child, officials said on Thursday.

The incident comes amid the ongoing crisis over the Coldrif-linked child deaths in the state. Following this, the entire stock of Azithromycin antibiotic at the government hospital in Morar town of Gwalior district has been sealed and samples have been sent to a laboratory in Bhopal for testing, the officials said.

All 306 bottles of this medicine, which had been distributed and stored at the hospital in Morar, have been recalled and seized, according to drug inspector Anubhuti Sharma. Although preliminary inspection of some of the medicine bottles revealed no signs of insects, testing is necessary, she added.

Of the bottles seized, some have been sent to a laboratory in Bhopal for testing. A sample of this medicine will also be sent to the Central Drug Laboratory in Kolkata, Sharma said.

Officials said that the medicine was generic and manufactured by a Madhya Pradesh-based company.

The consumption of the adulterated Coldrif cough syrup had caused 24 child deaths in MP due to suspected renal failure, prompting the World Health Organisation (WHO) to issue an alert against three "substandard" oral cough syrups identified in India -Coldrif, Respifresh TR and ReLife.

(With PTI inputs)

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