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A four-year-old girl suffered severe skin reactions after expired medication was dispensed at Attingal Government Homeopathic Hospital. Hospital authorities admitted the lapse, and an investigation is underway.
The Supreme Court decried 10-fold markups on cancer medicines as 'carnage', proposing a uniform 16% margin and scrutinising corporate hospitals' in-house pharmacy mandates, which burden patients and taxpayers.
Brittas objected to what he called 'nasty aspersions' on the Chief Minister and demanded that those remarks be expunged from the record.
The Drug Control Department is taking action to address these issues and ensure the safety of medicines in circulation.
Coldrif from Sresan Pharmaceuticals, Respifresh TR from Rednex Pharmaceuticals, and ReLife from Shape Pharma were the drugs listed by WHO.
TN Directorate of Drugs Control had inspected the facility and reported that the drugs were stored in "unhygienic conditions" in the corridors.
Sanofi will first invest 100 million euros ($109.31 million) by next year.
The firm is among three Indian companies whose cough syrups the World Health Organization (WHO) and other agencies have linked to the deaths of 141 children in Uzbekistan, Gambia and Cameroon, in one of the world's worst such waves of poisoning.
At least 70 children in Gambia, most under 5 years old, died from acute kidney injury last year. A government task force which investigated the deaths found they were "a direct result" of contaminated cough and cold syrups imported from India.
Common pharmaceuticals are manufactured using chemical precursors derived from crude oil, presenting a niche sustainability challenge as the world targets Net Zero.
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