About 22 children so far, 20 in the Chhindwara region of Madhya Pradesh according to reports and some children in Rajasthan, have lost their lives by consuming toxic cough syrup. This marks a grim throwback to the deaths of at least 12 children in December 2019-January 2020 under similar circumstances in Jammu and Kashmir. About 70 children died in The Gambia in 2022 due to Indian cough syrup; an equal number of deaths in Uzbekistan in 2022 and 2023 has been linked to Indian medication. While the regulators have tightened the rules after these tragedies, the recent deaths suggest that callous operators continue to have their way.

The firm in the news for the wrong reasons is Tamil Nadu’s Sresan Pharmaceuticals, whose supplies have been linked to the deaths in MP. Kaysons Pharma in Rajasth

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