Indonesia temporarily bans sales of all syrup-based medications and is looking closely at paracetamol syrups used locally to treat fever in children that contain diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol.
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Some medicinal syrups available in Indonesia contained ingredients linked to fatal acute kidney injury in children, its health minister said on Thursday, October 20, as it investigates a spike in cases and 99 child deaths this year.
Gambia’s government is also investigating child AKI deaths linked to paracetamol syrups after 70 fatalities there. The syrups were made by New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd, which India said it is investigating.Ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol were detected in products found at the homes of some of the patients, health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Thursday, without specifying how many.
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