The WHO and the Indian Ministry of Health have strongly advised all parents and guardians to avoid unnecessary use of cough and cold medications in children. They have advised against giving any cough syrup to children without a doctor’s advice.
The meeting directed all pharmaceutical manufacturers to strictly adhere to the revised Schedule M. It also threatened to revoke the licenses of factories violating the rules.
The Madhya Pradesh government has taken action in ough syrup deaths matter, and Chhindwara doctor Praveen Soni, who recommended the syrup, has been arrested.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that all the manufacturing activities of the Noida-based pharma company have been stopped in view of the reports of contamination in cough syrup Dok1 Max. Read on for details:
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