Twenty children in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district are dead, 85 per cent of them under the age of five. Their parents trusted a medicine that should have eased their coughs, not ended their lives.
A batch of Coldrif cough syrup is at the heart of the matter. Tests by state authorities found the syrup contained 48.6 per cent diethylene glycol, a deadly industrial solvent used in brake fluid and known to cause acute kidney failure.
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The Madhya Pradesh government has since banned the drug and filed an FIR, while the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation has launched a crimin
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