NEW DELHI/LONDON - An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in Indian-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a chemicals trader involved in the supply chain told Reuters. The World Health Organisation said last year the syrups, made by Indian manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd, contained lethal...
Grieving parents hold up signs during a news conference, calling for justice for the deaths of children linked to contaminated cough syrups, in Serekunda, Gambia, on Nov 4, 2022.NEW DELHI/LONDON - An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in Indian-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a chemicals trader involved in the supply chain told Reuters.
India's drugs regulator told the WHO in December that the propylene glycol used in the syrups came from Goel Pharma Chem, a Delhi-based pharma-supplies company, and was "recorded to have been imported" from South Korean manufacturer SKC Co Ltd. Reuters could not independently confirm Goel's assertion. He said that after the Gambia poisonings, his company had stopped selling PG but continued to supply other products such as starch, and that he generally buys most of his products from eight to 10 importers.
"If you ask and you don't get informed, it's a dead end," Rutendo Kuwana, the WHO's team lead for incidents with substandard and falsified medicines, told Reuters in an interview on March 31. As well as denying that Maiden's syrups are connected to the deaths in Gambia, India's health ministry has told the WHO that its allegations "adversely impacted the image" of the country's $41 billion pharmaceutical industry.
The court gave them a month to appeal; Reuters could not ascertain the status of the case. Goyal did not respond to requests for comment; neither Sharma nor his lawyer could be reached. The Maiden representative declined to comment.
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