Chhindwara: In the past 30 days, at least 11 children have died from kidney failure after consuming contaminated Coldrif cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district. Following these deaths, police have arrested Dr Pradeep Soni, a paediatrician posted at the Community Health Centre (CHC) in the town, who had prescribed the syrup, and registered him as an accused in the case.

Apart from Dr Soni, the police have named the directors of a Tamil Nadu-based pharmaceutical company (M/s Sresan Pharmaceuticals, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu) as the second accused in the case.

What came as even more shocking was that after his arrest, the doctor confessed he had been prescribing the same cough syrup for the past 15 years to children suffering from cough and fever, completely unaware that it wa

See Full Page