A central team from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has collected samples in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district as part of a probe into the suspected role of cough syrup in the recent deaths and illnesses of children. Similar cases have emerged from Rajasthan, prompting urgent testing of dextromethorphan hydrobromide syrup batches and a halt in distribution across the state.
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The probe follows the death of a five-year-old boy in Sikar, Rajasthan, after consuming cough syrup supplied under the state’s free medicine scheme, alongside the serious illness of a three-year-old in Bharatpur who took the same syrup.
Similarly, additionally, in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district, six children have died over the past month from suspected kidney
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