The Madhya Pradesh Police have registered a criminal case against a government paediatrician and the directors of a Tamil Nadu -based pharmaceutical company. This comes after at least 11 children in Chhindwara district’s Parasia reportedly died after consuming contaminated cough syrup.

Dr Praveen Soni , a paediatrician at Parasia’s Community Health Centre (CHC), defended himself ahead of his arrest. He said he could not have imagined the syrup was dangerous and has been prescribing it for 15 years. He added that he was not the only doctor prescribing this medicine.

Dr Soni claimed that multiple factors, including viral infections and high fevers, could have caused kidney damage. “It was a mixed pattern; there were multiple causes, which I thought went from viral infections to high

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