It was also revealed that Indian pharmaceutical companies paid bribes of 60,000 dollars to hide the deaths of children.
New Delhi: Hundreds of children around the world have died due to the substandard medicines of Indian pharmaceutical companies, it has been revealed that the companies use harmful ingredients in the preparation of medicines.
According to the foreign news agency Reuters, in the latest investigation, it has been revealed that Indian pharmaceutical companies have used harmful ingredients in medicines and hundreds of children have died around the world due to these substandard medicines.
According to the latest data, hundreds of children have died from Indian medicines in African countries including Uzbekistan and Indonesia since 2022.
On December 18, 2022, 18 children in Uzbekistan lost their lives due to poisonous Indian medicine, in October 2022, Indian-made cough syrup killed 69 children in the African country of Gambia.
In October 2022, Indonesia banned the import of all types of medicines from India after the deaths of 99 children. Similarly, on June 15, 2023, Liberia and Nigeria seized more than 250 containers of Indian-made paracetamol syrup due to toxicity.
According to the American agency FDA, in February this year, eye drops manufactured in India caused an eye epidemic in the United States.
According to the international news organization, it has also been revealed that Indian pharmaceutical companies paid bribes of 60 thousand dollars to hide the deaths of children.
Indian pharma companies manufacturing fake medicines in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, UP, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. are located
Indian companies are losing orders due to substandard and harmful drugs and most countries are also reconsidering importing other products from India.
According to the news agency, after the deaths of hundreds of children, there is outrage in various countries including the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Gambia and Uzbekistan against fake medicines manufactured by Indian pharmaceutical companies.
It should be noted that the World Health Organization had also issued a global alert on substandard Indian medicines in December last year.
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