Posted on 10/16/2025 3:19:51 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A Gwalior government hospital is under scrutiny after worms were allegedly found in an antibiotic bottle, days after a toxic cough syrup tragedy in Madhya Pradesh killed 24 children.
Amid the ongoing probe into child deaths linked to a toxic cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, a government hospital in Gwalior's Morar town is now under scrutiny after a woman complained of finding worms in a bottle of antibiotic medicine given to her child, officials said on Thursday.
Following the complaint, authorities sealed the entire stock of Azithromycin antibiotic oral suspension at the Morar government hospital and sent samples for laboratory testing in Bhopal. Drug inspector Anubhuti Sharma said, "A woman at the government hospital in Morar complained of worms in a bottle of Azithromycin oral suspension."
Although the bottle brought by the complainant was open, officials said the matter was immediately investigated. All 306 bottles of the antibiotic distributed and stored at the hospital have been recalled and seized. Sharma said that a preliminary inspection of some bottles revealed no visible signs of insects, but testing was essential to determine contamination.
The medicine in question was a generic Azithromycin oral suspension, commonly prescribed to children for infections, and manufactured by a Madhya Pradesh-based company.
Officials added that samples have been sent to Bhopal for testing, and another set will be sent to the Central Drug Laboratory in Kolkata.
The complaint comes amid outrage over the deaths of at least 24 children in Chhindwara district due to suspected renal failure caused by the adulterated Coldrif cough syrup.
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yeah, remind me never to get sick anywhere near India. Come to think of it, I don’t even want to be well anywhere near India.
I don’t need to go to India to experience that. First Castreau, and now Carnage, are bringing the ‘best’ of India, to Canaduh! And, by the MILLIONS! 🤮
And India is where we get many of our generic drugs!
Send us your bright graduates for H1-B, you certainly do not need them at home.
Antibiotics were invented in 1928, and only effectively used around WWII, so 100 years ago, this was the norm everywhere.
The govt of India doesn’t “send it’s bright graduates” - it in fact is concerned about the brain drain since the 1970s.
People choose to come as the USA is the land of opportunities.
Now that President Trump has changed this, it will be good for India. Perhaps this could bring India back to the global position it had in the 18th century when it was fully a quarter of the world’s GDP
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