JAIPUR: Rajasthan govt seems to have learnt no lessons from the 2021 Delhi episode when three children died after consuming a cough syrup containing dextromethorphan — the same drug now blamed for the death of a five-year-old in Sikar Monday, reports Intishab Ali. After the Delhi deaths, Directorate General of Health Services had directed all clinics and hospitals in the capital not to give dextromethorphan-based medicines to children below four years. Though the order wasn’t national, activists say state health officials should have taken note. In Rajasthan, however, the syrup was being prescribed to children under four at govt hospitals and centres under ‘free medicine’ scheme until it was paused after the Sikar death and reports of illness among kids in Sikar and Bharatpur. Kayson

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