'Contaminated' Cough Syrup Linked Deaths: NCDS Collects Water, Entomological Drug Samples

ETV Bharat / state

'Contaminated' Cough Syrup Linked Deaths: NCDS Collects Water, Entomological Drug Samples

NCDC collected samples from hospitals as multiple children have died of kidney failure following alleged consumption of contaminated cough syrup.

New Delhi: The government's nodal agency for disease surveillance, NCDC, has collected water and entomological drug samples from hospitals and other sites in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan where multiple children have died of kidney failure following alleged consumption of contaminated cough syrup.

The samples will be tested to rule out possible of any infectious disease. Once the test results are out they will be shared with the state drug authorities, officials said. Simultaneously, state drug authorities are testing the drug