NEW DELHI: A senior doctor in Rajasthan who drank a cough syrup to reassure anxious parents later collapsed unconscious, as the medicine has been linked to the deaths of at least two children and several others falling ill in the state. Dr Tarachand Yogi, in charge of the Bayana community health centre, consumed a dose of the syrup on 24 September in front of worried families. Eight hours later, he was found unconscious in his car, raising alarm over the safety of the widely distributed medicine. The Rajasthan government has since banned 22 batches of the syrup, recalled existing stock and launched an inquiry. Over 1.33 lakh bottles of the syrup were distributed in the state since July, officials said, with 8,200 still in storage at Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh Hospital, news agency PT

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