Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Cough syrups with the same contents as the ones banned by the Madhya Pradesh Government are available in chemist shops in the city. Some of them, however, are refusing to sell them without a paediatrician prescription.

After banning ColdRif, manufactured by a Pharma Company of Tamil Nadu, the MP government, on Sunday, also banned Relife and RespiFresh TR - cough syrups manufactured by companies in Gujarat.

Enquiries with chemists in the city by this reporter revealed that while the two banned drugs are not available, others with the same formulations are.

At a medico near Hamidia hospital, this reporter was offered substitutes to the two cough syrups - Alkof Orange and Amrox-LS. The chemist of the medico, however, said that the two syrups would be sold only on

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