The Pharmaceutical Companies Behind Cough Medicine Deaths In Children | Undercover Asia
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- Between 2022 and 2023, over 300 children in Gambia, Uzbekistan and Indonesia died after they consumed cough syrup. It sent shockwaves around the world. Investigations revealed toxic ingredients in them. Diethylene and Ethylene Glycol are deadly chemicals which should never be found in medicine. The cough syrups were manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in India and Indonesia. The manufacturing firms deny wrongdoing but, in the months to follow, the findings would open up a pandora’s box of dirty truths.
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The scary part is this seems a recurring problem and even worse, no one is being punished or jailed.
People with money rule the world
That's the systems corrupted
Gujarat based companies banned by Gambia
Corruption runs rampant over there.
Nut allergies kill far more but who is jailing that industry? C'mon. Be real.
If you are manufacturing medicine, it’s your company's responsibility to test the raw ingredients BEFORE manufacturing the end product. The raw ingredient could be tainted during manufacturing, transport, storage, or industrial espionage. If you don’t want to do the test or buy the equipment to do so, then your company should not be in the drug manufacturing business in the first place. If testing is part of the cost to do that specific business, failure to take into account that cost will eventually lead to the downfall of the company. Lastly, my condolences to the families who have lost their children to this toxic medicine scandal.
>it's your responbiliity to test
Apparently, it's not their responsibility according to international standard of practices.
Not to say it actually should not be their responsibility of course, but that the international standard still haven't required them to be. Which is wrong and must be amended.
@@sastradana9222 if you have not watched the documentary in full or in detail, stop giving the wrong details to the public. It is clearly stated in the video (time from 25.00 to 26.00), it is MANDATED by GMP the mandatory testing of ALL raw materials... As such it is the clear-cut responsibility of the drug manufacturer, to test the raw materials as the risk of contamination is always there. Look making medicine is not rocket science, it is just mixing a batch of raw ingredients based on formulation and process control. It is not like aeronautical engineering where, you need specialized engineers, technological know-how, 8 axis tool set, and other manufacturing equipment to make a single turbine blade… All engineering trade requires passion in the job, and attention to the smallest details to deliver a successful product.
India is a third world country.
You don't even need to buy any equipment. Just stick a sample in the post to a lab and they will do it for you for a small fee.
@@sastradana9222you didn't listen & your info is sus
7:05 The toxin found in the children cough syrup was Diethylene Glycol, a powerful INDUSTRIAL solvent, used as a cleaning agent, used for degreasing, as a solvent, found in paints, fuels, adhesives. How could anyone be so evil to let children drink poison? It’s so heartbreaking especially for the families, to see their children suffer permanent kidney failure, health issues, death.
And it’s not only one company that switch their additives from the safe propylene glycol to ethylene glycol. There are two in india . There must be the same raw material supplier that encourage the drug company to switch for cheaper blend but end up deadly . Recent eye drop contaminated with P Aeroginosa causes 4 dead and 40 lost their eyesights here in the US . The eye drop was imported from india. I designed many pharmaceutical plant and current cGMP is to test all incoming raw material and test all outgoing product with sterility , stability and efficacy. Unfortunately , they bypass them thinking it’s lees stringent oral dosages and eye drop does not matter. Those company should be immediately close down
@@charliecheng3340 pharma are ruling the world, they are evil people serving the devil/shaytan. They will never go to jail, they owe the jystice system (bribe judges etc..,)
@@charliecheng3340there's no regulation in medicine manufacturing in India.
😮😢
Isn’t the other one for winterizing RV’s?
Why would the consumer need to check the validity of the medicine? Isn't its the manufacturer and the government's job to make sure the medicine is compliant and non toxic before releasing it for public sale? 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Government don't buy cheap medicine , u do
@@eggbenedict-gt7mwcheap or not itix govt,s duty to do random check of production of medicine.
@@eggbenedict-gt7mw it would be funny if you were affected by this one day
@@nukeputin420 i am indian beach 😂😂😂😂
@@eggbenedict-gt7mw sure, sure, you are Indian beach if you say so. @ me when you learn English
I request CNA should make a documentary on Indian unqualified doctors
This is so heartbreaking. I feel so bad for the parents and the poor children that suffered needlessly
This is why you need to test all the raw materials and not be used until tested. This should be part of Quality Control and Quality Assurance. Any Pharmaceutical without these procedures should be accountable and punishable.
This is very terrifying and quality control is important. Just like the recent incident on eye drops that caused death, blindness and bacteria infections made by India pharmaceutical company and sold in USA. I happened to compare two different petroleum jelly and checked the manufacturer. I chose the one made in USA although it costs more. I’m not taking any risk.
well, i can give you list how US pharma companies killed thousands of people around the globe as well. Hope you remember Jassen's cancer baby powder or Merck's medicine batch or pfizer's. And i am talking about billion dollar companies, not some small companies and those companies are still in market producing more medicines and making money. At least, in India, they canceled their license and put them in further investigation. It's a global issue and we should all stand together against this rather pin pointing countries.
That's what I do, too.
Never buy medicines made in Indian factories. A lot of shortcuts taken and Indian Regulators are controlled by corrupt politicians. Money really really talks in India. Money above moral obligations to the public. Worse than China in many ways. At least in China they shoot corrupt politicians in the head. In India they go to jail a few days and go back out to serve their top masters 😂.
petroleum jelly is ok because you don't eat them.
Thanks for alerting us. I never thought twice about opting for generic medicine before. Now I will check the country of manufacture before buying medication.
In Uganda 🇺🇬, 80% of the medicine in the market is from India 🇮🇳. As a poor 3rd world country, there is a high probability of deaths happening and the authorities are not even aware due to lack of proper monitoring and evaluation of drug use.
Yeah we all Indians heard about that news ,, our condolences to the childrens family
We find out that that the amount of glycerine was not in proportion
India will take proper care next time❤
I thought about it too
What's about oxycodone who 3 million in US which is US pharmacy agency
@@namakmirchkitchen5050 This is very serious. Childrens lives have been lost.
There really should never be a next time where this happens.
But it was reported that even in a country as "1st world" as the U.S., 40% of the over-the-counter and generics come from India.
In Australia medicated cough syrups for children under the age of 6 years have been banned for sale since around 2012. I feel so sad for all the people that have suffered tragic loss because some guys in a suit working selling cheap Pharma thought this would be ever be ok.
in ur country already has Manuka honey which is best treatment fr cough.
@@rubyguha1192 Manuka honey is not from Australia fool
@@eggbenedict-gt7mw Lol i know it's original from New Zealand
but in Australia they also produce that. i already had used one Australian Manuka honey for my pup ; it was not bad at all !!
@@rubyguha1192 lol so by ur logic , i have also used Manuka honey from india which is a fake product 😂😂😂😂
@@rubyguha1192 so by ur logic , they produce Bundy in india 😂😂😂😂
Another great informative investigative journalism piece on the pharmaceutical industry and its controversies.
The entire Indian pharmaceutical industry and its governing government agency should be dismantled. No more drugs should be manufactured, much less exported. They've proven time and time again that not only can they not be trusted, they are a danger to the entire world. The victims and their governments should sue the Indian government and the Indian manufacturers.
Stop dreaming
Lol, you import like 40 percent of all your pharmaceuticals from India.
Also are you gonna have another medicine cartel in your country? There exists one for insulin Btw.
@@Lilliana1 Do you honestly think that lower prices are worth dying for?
@@theotheleo6830 peaple do die if they cannot afford insulin
so you're going to blame the entire pharma industry in india for the malpractices of a few manufacturers who are an outlier and not the norm? India exports 25% of all medicines in the world, if they were all contaminated a lot more people would be dying
This is horrible, not only for the world but for the Indian consumers as well. Great presentation, Hopefully the government will take strictest action against these greedy money hungry people who put money over human life. One of the reasons why i prefer trusted brands over new brands. Pathetic!
Seriously? Any action against Adani & co after the meltdown . What about collapsing bridges, potholed roads , rail accidents?
@@jkardez4794 Seriously? You have way too high expectations from a democracy with a gdp per capita of 2300$ which is equivalent to many sub sahara african nations.
We had a GDP of around 20 Billion when we got our independence in 1947 with illiteracy at whopping 85%. Now we are at 3.5 Trillion USD. Give us 10-15 years and we will be at 10 trillion USD for sure.
Get your expectations right, cost cutting is bound to happen when a country is not rich enough, just like how poor people often do not have a insurance as they can't afford even the monthly payments.
And why would we take action against Adani? Are they favoured by Modi ? Yes. Did the supreme court find any counts of fraud during their hearings? No. Did the US courts find any fraud? No. Are adani companies profitable? Yes.
I would argue that startups in developed nations with zero profits are a bigger scam if high growth cash flow positive adani companies should be considered a scam.
@@shubhamnarayan2077 The PM of this country keeps harping about GDP . Did you even understand that this a report about killer medications manufactured in India ?Will $50 trillion GDP get back the lives of the hundreds of people including children who die because of the criminal activities of businessmen in this country. India hasn't progressed after 76 years - forget about cars , mobiles etc , it can't even accept the fact that it can't even protect its own citizens. Only dumb people are focused on GDP .Sounds like an andhbhakht ? Oops , forgot about the killer rail accident and isn't the PM obsessed with a toy called bullet train .
@@shubhamnarayan2077 a scam us still a scam no matter where it occurs. Sadly this is a fact of life and many die because of it.
Bbgrahmin quota people do this 😢😢
If you read the instruction, the composition says about propyleneglycole, which is ok to consume, but after several death cases it was rechecked and found ethyleneglycole, which you cannot even taste. Speaking with a farmacy worker in Kazakhstan, found out that this syrup had been in sale much time before the death cases arrived and there were no such cases. Only since 2022 came out such cases. So it makes to suppose that the first lot was made and checked according the norms, after the manufacturer changed the ingredient to make the product cheaper for him, but the new lot passed without new control, it means. So, the control of every lot is important.
Deliberate
Population control
Regulation problem. Legislation should be done to stop this madness.
Quality Control can only be performed by people/agents who work within the organizations and are able to whistleblow to the authorities without fear of any punishments by their employers. This can only be done if the authorities foot the bill and send these foot soldiers out into the field. And once the whistle blower sends the alarm, the people responsible for these faults must be made to pay very painfully (including mandatory imprisonment) for even attempting their vile acts. There is no better way. Because once the product is finished, it is very difficult to detect deficiencies/toxins in the product.
"On New Year’s Day, 4-year-old Isha Darboe died at the Edward Francis Small hospital in Gambia. She’d been dosed from a bottle of anti-nausea syrup that had somehow escaped the recall. Her father, Lamin Darboe, says he had heard about bad medicine circulating in the country, but a woman at the pharmacy had assured him this one was fine.
At his home in a fishing village on the Atlantic coast, Darboe lights a cigarette and scrolls through photos on his phone. There are dozens of Isha - showing off new dresses, posing with her younger brother, sticking her tongue out for the camera. She had been looking forward to starting school this year when she would have turned 5. He tears up when he recalls her final days in the hospital. Too weak to speak, she communicated with her father mostly by pinching him, he says. “She was dying in pain.”
He scrolls to another snapshot: a picture of the box of Maiden drugs that killed his daughter, an “M” logo indicating its maker. The liquid in the 100-milliliter bottle had completed an astonishing odyssey made possible by the pharmacy of the world, crossing seas and oceans to wind up in Isha Darboe’s mouth. National borders meant nothing - until it came time to determine what went wrong."
www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-10/poisoned-cough-syrup-traced-to-india-reveals-gaps-in-regulation
If they couldn't even afford to test yet, then don't produce..!
I'm so so sorry for your lost, my heart aches for you moms.
And dads too
I have always made my own cough syrup which is just as effective. All I use is olive oil, fresh lemon juice, ginger and honey. I blend these together in a pan gently warmed (don't boil) and strain into sterilised bottles, this will keep for a long time refrigerated.
Yes , definitely
Hoeny in kid syrup, great, you like your kids with botulism, there is a good reason why honey should never be given to kids, it always contains spores of botulii.
Soo nice to share info hun.❤ thanks
and guess if need somehing "a lil stronger" can add some concentrate poppy tea to it.
@deborahstone9696 hey no problem, you're very welcome.
IN INDIA,,,, ,LEADERS AND OFFICIAL,, ARE VERY COREPTED....... ,
Thank you so much for this very relevant and quality production. CNA insider has been one of the best things to happen to me
I'm from India and in all these years we have only legalized, organized and committed to corruption. Those licenses suspended are done to save face in international market. Same thing happens in India from Indian and other brands doing business in India and there's not a single discussion complete pin drop of silence. Use Indian products or engage with Indians with caution.
The last line you wrote is despicable.
@@rutvikrs Truth exists; only lies are invented. - Georges Braque
@@varniitprofessional I am not denying the problems, I am questioning the intention behind projecting this self hatred toward the world and the efficacy of such an approach.
@@varniitprofessionalyou should engage with every human with caution.
My heart goes out to these parents, the sadness breaks your heart! The shocking discovery of these poisons in cough syrup, it’s all about greed!!😢😢😢😢
this piece should reach a much wider audience.
Once again, GREED dominates ethics. The global addiction to money is the most detrimental form of destruction upon mankind, in too many cases.
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Greed plus hunger for power
Ever heard of shell, nestle, etc
Issues with cough syrups has been happening since I was a child. Some died out of poisoning and some abused it an become addicted. That's why I decided just to never take it and give it to my kids now. It will either go away with proper diet and hydration or if it happens to come from something more serious, then the main cause will need to be addressed. The risk of death and/or addiction far outweigh the temporary relief cough syrups give.
where? i grew up in soviet ocupied country considered poor and i've never heard such a thing. but at that time medicine was produced locally, not imported from india.
Australia has had issues with cough medicine. Certain brands have been banned due to the ingredients causing harmful effects to the consumer. Why suppress a cough? A cough serves a purpose biologically.
They can’t be used to get high anymore,not for years
*This is maddening so sick and depressing honestly I never used medicines made in India*
You never used? 😂 Most of the vaccine is made in India then how are sure about you never had?😂
@@santhoshv3028😮🤢😱
40% of generics in the US are manufactured in India and China.
There's nothing better than natural Vitamin C. Manuka Honey, Lemon juice, Orange juice for colds & flu.
Somera... exactly....... 🙏
Juices aren't real ...
wish i could click like thousand times, what a terrific investigation documentary as always. bravo cna insider..
Sell all the factory and property of the owners and directors of this company and whatever they earn for next 10 year should be used to pay the affected families
India's Health Minister needs to do something about it in order to maintain the world's number one supplier of medicines.
Corruption is far worse than COVID or AIDS because there is no cure for it! It will transform into a difference form.
Don't expect the ministers to do anything because they are busy collecting money known as corruption!
What he can do? Maybe he was involved in all this. How can without his permission these medicines could've been exported anyway?
whole party is involved named BJP gone are the days where i used to say i am ashamed of india but this is the problem caused by BJP
In case you didn't know the health minister of India is a political scientist - he has no credentials to be a human doctor. He was chosen by the PM Modi. The finance minister studied history in college and you can imagine the rest of the cabal of jokers .
@@kaustubhraizadaastute observation, the whole world should come together and ban BJP. Then we will become rich and corruption free like we were in our first 60 years of independence.
It is the responsibility of the government to protect the people. Even strict action against 1 culprit will improve the industry
Indian pharmacy company who involve in this scandal should getting sue for responsible and apology
Why is it ALWAYS made in India? Can any organisation step up the quality control of India made medication since India produce at least 1/3 of the world supply of medicine?
Sorry for those kids who died from those syrup . Cough syrups are very dangerous for small children if it gets overdose .In most of incident in africa its found that they have given overdose .India's pharmacy sector is very good and well researched .India is leader in pharmacy sector around world .I am from India 🇮🇳 and i have not heard any incident here related to cough syrup .
@@sanjaychauhan1116 😂😂😂😂 acha
@@sanjaychauhan1116 it is proven that at least 7 brand of Indian made cough syrup is contaminated. There are officially lab tested result.
India have 2000 or 3000 factory that produces generic medication thus claiming all of them are good and guilty free despite the facts being exposed on global media....
Such mindset that India kids are injured by cough syrup thus all Indian factory are good is dangerous. Human already got kind or evil personality. We should have the positive mindset of encouraging higher standards for any medicinal industry. That's the only way for improvement.
@@sanjaychauhan1116 i am not against you or any non evil Indian. It is a fact that only about 1% drugs are actually tested. It's too low %. We need to improve it's quality control.
@@sanjaychauhan1116 not an overdose problem, the medicine was poisoned with chemicals
0:00: ☠ Children in Gambia, Uzbekistan, and Indonesia have died from acute renal failure after consuming cough syrups contaminated with toxic ingredients, leading to investigations and bans on certain medicines.
7:38: 😢 Contaminated cough syrups made in India and Indonesia have caused the deaths of hundreds of children worldwide.
16:33: ⚠ Poor quality medicines and lack of regulation in the pharmaceutical industry pose a global health risk.
20:18: 🔍 The Indian pharmaceutical industry faces scrutiny and weaknesses in quality control as deaths from contaminated cough syrups raise concerns.
26:01: ⚠ Tainted medicines from India and Indonesia cause fatalities and permanent damage to children across the world.
33:27: 🌍 The weaknesses in the global supply chain for pharmaceutical products are highlighted.
43:36: ⚠ The lack of a solid global regulatory framework makes the international supply chain vulnerable to poor quality drugs, and industry needs to lead in pushing for independent testing.
Recap by Tammy AI
A great investigative piece. Now if only those big pharma wouldn't gouge on prices, we would all still be buying good quality medicine. Short-sighted fools
Agree
This sort of thing should never be allowed to happen, and the governments of India and Indonesia need to more heavily scrutinize medicine produced in their countries and punish people who make poisonous medicine. The families of these children deserve justice.
i mean the governments of the WHOLE WORLD let toxic "medacines" be pushed for everyone why would they stop toxic medacine for just some?
It will keep happening because the punishment is a slap on the wrist. The CEO of the company was only sentenced to 2 years and a fine of $60k.
Quality Control can only be performed by people/agents who work within the organizations and are able to whistleblow to the authorities without fear of any punishments by their employers. This can only be done if the authorities foot the bill and send these foot soldiers out into the field. And once the whistle blower sends the alarm, the people responsible for these faults must be made to pay very painfully (including mandatory imprisonment) for even attempting their vile acts. There is no better way. Because once the product is made, it is very difficult to detect deficiencies/toxins in the product.
Basically an impossible task
@@rickyspeople Near impossible. I have run factories before and I have had nearly 1,000 workers under my wing. I can tell you that it is very difficult to catch even your own managers/supervisors who are on the take. Because in almost every dept, there are opportunities to sneak in some 'hanky panky' stuff. It can be your ingredients or packaging materials or print or operations or collection/delivery units. And these things can sometimes happen right under your nose and you wouldn't know it.
The authorities have to keep a database of these people who are even remotely suspected of corruption so that they can be tracked as they move from one organization to the next.
@@marvelcomiks8078 in this case , it involves the purchasing guy who knowingly switch from propylene glycol to the deadly ethylene glycol. There are not one but two companies in india that make cough syrup using cheaper ethylene glycol, the way cGMP work is , all incoming raw material must be tested and all outgoing product must be tested with sterility , efficacy and stability before it’s being released .
India needs to have a FDA group in the government paid by the manufacturer as tax to periodically supervised the production and validation of the company
@@charliecheng3340 Thats a good idea and a good start. But like in many organizations, they will soon be lined with corruption money and rendered ineffective.
I won’t buy anything from other countries anymore due to how bad regulations are in most of them. Some I may consider after I look up information to be sure it’s safe.
China and anywhere like it I refuse to get anything from. I rather pay more then take the risk. Which means cutbacks in other places to avoid buying anything from countries that don’t care about safety regulations.
All Singapore polyclinic medicines predominantly coming from India. Dr Reddy. Before the medicines from somewhere now all from India to control cost Not all pharma cos are bad but some small pharma cos produce without following the standard protocols in inspection. Need to be careful.
So sad when it’s easy to make your own cough syrup! It reminds me of the case in China with melamine in the baby formula. There’s a special place in Hell for people who knowingly make and sell tainted children’s remedies.
That was the corrupted China under the corrupted President Jiang Ze Ming. Ever since President Xi Jin Ping took over from Jiang and put him and all his corrupted gang in jail, China has done a good job wiping out corruption and unethical business practices. President Xi and his team really made a lot of progress for China.
I remember the melamine in baby formula. We also found lead in toothpaste.
Unforgivable, damaging people's lives. I've lost trust, which will keep my family and I much safer.
Wow now you don’t wanna take india name and now you have to drake chin where isn’t it . And what most suprising thing is . If this document was about china , all Indian and American would comment with curse but now I see no Indian , all they doing here is exuse
oxycodone who .3 million in US which is US pharmacy agency 😢😢😢😢
As someone who worked in quality assurance with all the major pharmaceutical manufacturers, my one piece of advice is, don’t get a generic if you don’t have to. Even the biggest and most reputable generic manufacturers import from their Asian facilities and the stringency for quality is abysmal.
Thanks for the info but even the big guns have done poorly when it comes to many drugs and medicines.
Even branded medicines are made in india or Asia . Germany is listed as biggest dugs and medicine supplier but it supplies raw materials and get medicines from 3rd parties in Asia rebranding them as made in Germany. All big brands outsource. It's more of a supply chain issue rather than company issue.
If a state imports from India, why doesn't the state test the product samples from imports before loosening them for sale? IT would be easy to do. from each box or smaller batch pull a sample bottle or two or three and test them by gas and liquid chromatography for anything on list of toxins? A proper sampling will help to weed out bad batches or refuse sale of batches that have toxic medicines included in the batch. If even one is contaminated then the sale is off and the deal is off. Hard ball!!!!!
The same thing happened in the Caribbean a few years ago. Ethylene glycol instead of propylene glycol
Ethylene glycol is a medicine
@@eggbenedict-gt7mw Some medicines are poison and can harm people
@@eggbenedict-gt7mw How is Ethylene glycol a medicine? Please explain.
@@AWY-LO go search polyethylene glycol
😢Evils are everywhere..😭
Why is this industrial cleaner EVEN IN MEDICINE??!!!!
Sometimes i wish big pharma companies had a big gasleak or something simular, or even better if the shareholders and ceo's had a gasleak
This video is truly excellent and informative. As a student of pharmaceutical science, it resonated with me deeply, as it captures the core essence of the elective on drug manufacturing that I recently took. The video effectively covers crucial points regarding drug manufacturing and the importance of maintaining quality through stringent controls. I extend my heartfelt thanks to CNA Insider for shedding light on this vital aspect of the industry and raising awareness.
Ha ha ha..... if you are still studying pharma science you yet to know anything about the totality of" safety" , eg conflict of interest, gain of function, and one particular business man doing the call on the trajectory of the pharma.... Is it a "true " safety in the video you watched or simply indoctrination??? Nuremberg code 2.0 .... Please ponder on the logic of pharma pushing insulin into type 2 diabetic patients .. 1 ) Patients are body already saturated with insulin to the extend of they become insulin resistant... yet pharma want to pump in more insulin... It's like telling people who is obese and trying to lose weight to eat more... Then again diabetic medication is 20 billions global business... yup gotta keep the tilt ringing and public ignorant $$$$$$$😂😂😂😂
Ha ha have you bother to do extensive reading and find out what in those Covid jab.... please find out who Dr Luke Montaniege, Dr Mike Yedan and Dr Robert Malone ,... who they are
Sorry for those kids who died from those syrup . Cough syrups are very dangerous for small children if it gets overdose .In most of incident in africa its found that they have given overdose .India's pharmacy sector is very good and well researched .India is leader in pharmacy sector around world .I am from India 🇮🇳 and i have not heard any incident here related to cough syrup .
@@sanjaychauhan1116only in quantity India is no 1 not quality. There was a high level of ethylene glycol in those cough syrups which caused deaths of children.
Last year (2022)over 60 babies and children in The Gambia died after taking Indian made cough medicine.
very tragic
probably the real number is much larger, its very difficult to force doctors to admit the real reason if prescribed drugs are at fault. they will blame the parents, everything and everyone but pharmaceutical companies and themselves.
More than 60 children died in Uzbekistan.
Why would they deliberately put poison in a medicine? Is gates associated with the company that did this? Prayers for all these families. 💔💔💔
It's cheaper than the safe chemicals.
*The top 5 exporters medicines are Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, The US & Italy. Collectively, thay generated about half (49.9%) of global exported medicines. By continents, shipments from Europe accumulating to 80%, Asia at 9.8% & North America 8.9%.*
Germany supplies raw materials. Medicines that branded as made in Germany are actually made by 3rd parties in India etc for German companies
The voice of the female narrator is quite magnetic, reminiscent of Juliet Stevenson, an English actress.
OMG I am suffering from this for the last 12 years …. At last a relief Thank you 🙏
If there are natural remedies then use them. Ginger, lemon water etc. Coughing is the body's defense mechanism to get rid of phlegm. Fluids like warm water can help better than cough syrup suppressant to get rid of phlegm.
What’s behind the scandal? Corruption and greed. That’s what is behind the scandal. How the hell do the people who made the medicine sleep at night? How do they live their lives every day knowing what they did? Disgusting evil corrupt companies.,
The cough medicine company should be shutdown and all the top executives and the owners of the company should be procecuted...
So heartbreaking for the parents...
And fined & the money given to the parents of the death kids. It cannot make up for their loss but it needs to send a message to these careless killer pharmaceutical companies.
It's murder.
28:14 I haven't heard this term for a GC in ages
2006 in Panama, same scandal with diethylene glycol. Very sad that it happened again 😢
They should be suing for alot more than that. Who knows what it will cost to look after a injured child /adult in ten years.
16:52 to 25:05 it is indeed v challenging to control the supply chain to ensure that the ingredients r safe, we cannot passively hope for the integrity of the manufacturers, thus we can only depend on our own country’s health authorities to be more stringent in their checks, and to blacklist errant manufacturers.
This happens world wide, pharmacutical companies barely pay a percentage of their profits as fines
and ... why there is no compensation for all of the victims?
cause India 🇮🇳 gets away with murder
There might be. Eventually. Or there might not - it is *far* too early to tell yet.
All legal trials take time. Big trials like the one in Indonesia where the parents of the dead or chronically injured children sue the government?
I don't know HOW long such trials take, but even for small scandals, final incident reports and investigations can take many months, if not a year or two to finish.
This is a *huge* and *international* scandal with *many* producers, countries, regulatory bodies, manufacturers, politicians, inspectors, etc involved.
And the mystery of what it even WAS, was only solved at the end of *last year* and the beginning of this year! There are *still* things being uncovered, investigated and found out *today*.
If I were to make an admittedly very uneducated guess, I'd say they'll probably be lucky if they see any compensation before sometimes next year.
Sir aapne kaya he samjha diya hats off..... The reason enlightenment is necessary
How cruel of the pharma manufacturers and so callous of those who are charged with quality control of drugs😡While Uzbekistan held a speedy trial and punished those responsible for selling such a syrup and killing children there.
When will pharmaceutical companies be held acciuntable and charged
Profit will one day decimate human existence.
It’s really sad and painful in the Gambia our government have done nothing about it 😢
Only treat high grade fever. Low grade is just the immune system working normally. Also no need to treat cough, it can prevent pneumonia.
I believe cough meds need more regulation. I’ve taken some cough meds that I have totally different reactions from same types of meds. The formulas are not consistent.
Cough syrups have been banned in Australia for years now due to their toxicity.
I wish the narrator did their homework and learned how to pronounce diethylene. It’s di-ethylene and not dithlene!
This is terrible shame on these countries/companys
I am truly curious about how the caste system in India affects it’s abilities to test, control for, and respond to side effects when they occur. Does the more homogeneous marriage structure put a bigger share of unforeseen complications on still developing foreign markets? Are the tests on more mixed blood types complicated by generational inbreeding factors and vice versa?
are you trolling rn cause how can someone be so braindead??
Hahhaa it does.. when you non-deserving people in-charge because of the reservation system… you pick mediocre and sub-mediocre people for the job.. 😂😂
DO NOT BE SILLY WHAT Cste system got anything to do with it
You seem to be very high on fentanyl .
Industrial grade chemicals will kill the healthiest individual of multiracial outbreeding .... your comment is irrelevant
How incredibly heartbreaking
and in my country, the fda is banning lato-lato while the pharmacies lined up the streets catching heat in this getting hotter temperature.
Cruel depopulation strategies. Very painful 😢
propylene glycol and ethylene glycol are completely different substances. Is the machinery contaminated from use for more than one purpose? Perhaps it was easier for these companies to use the active ingredients for industrial use than to use the proper inactive chemicals. In any case they must have knowingly put out a bad product.
Yes it's cheaper
greed is the reason
And what had been done to this evil beings who manufactured this poison, disregarding kids lives in pursuit of profit?
Happens in U.S and Canada too. But the medical industry is very good at protecting the big pharmacy in the west.
I know right. There was a sudden shortage but no viable explanation given except production is behind & ingredients hard to get by all due to the pandemic lockdowns & the cargo ship derailments added to the problem.
they buy because of its affordable and online its pretty easy
Our drugs are not much better. My husband liked to take NyQuil all the time for his allergies and sinus problems and the product can cause liver and kidney problems.
Those are by design. Modern medicines are sold as a candy . They want you as a permanent customer , getting addicted to their medicines which now increasingly have addictive substances.
This issue is rather supply chain issue even if you manufacture in USA, company will have to import same raw materials.
and they tell you that grandma’s home remedy is bad for you.
It's important to note diethylene gylcol is also found in toothpastes. Propylene gylcol is certainly not harmless. It is a primary component in vapes that cause inflammation. We have a grave misunderstanding of industrial chemicals - most we currently use are inflammatory. Please review the research. It just takes the right dosage and frequency and vulnerability of the patient/organ to cause disease and worse. You're better off avoiding it wherever possible
So... My chemist and my dealer are about the same? Sounds about right... There both crooks!
Wouldn't it help to solve the problem by just changing the name of the ingredient...eliminate glycol....call it anything else
Great 👍
problem with regulation. FDA only reactionary. will only react when tragedy strikes. pharma companies also become very greedy, exchange life for profit.
How do you gauge risk for something new?
We must not spare doctors they are the one who prescribe these cough syrups , pay them good kick backs they will prescribe even cow dung. They must be held accountable and punishment so that no doctors will dare to do this crime in future. They are let free and Scot free so these companies work hand in hand with them.
Another good reason for natural remedies. Healthy babies and toddlers who get sick, should not be given chemical medications. Give vitamins, nutrients and liquids to prevent dehydration. Let them run slight fevers, that’s the body doing it’s job of self healing. If the fever gets too high, give a cooling bath or wipe down skin with cool cloth. If a bad cough, put diced onion in socks and put on baby. The onion will relieve the cough.
Right!! Unfortunately, they're not given this kind of info. Options can sometimes make all the difference in the world.
Please ma, how do I do the onions and socks stuff, my baby has bad catarrh and cough
@@perpetualanyanwu9567 just dice up about 3 slices and put half into a sandwich baggie on each little foot, then put a sock on to hold them in place.
The right answer is to use common sense. As this comment says, you do not necessarily need to treat every symptom - and whether or not onions in socks really works, it will not harm! But you need to recognize when your child needs to see a doctor and be willing to do it when needed.
Kindly do not prescribe onion as u deem fit. Ppl can follow this advise and face bad adverse effects. Also, fever above 38.5 degrees must be cooled down using proper medicine. U dont want to give wrong advice then someone's baby get nerve or worse health issues.
They should sue the indian government and the indian pharmaceutical companies. Both are complicit. Also countries should ban medication made in India. In many cases generic drugs made in india are not up to standard.
Not possible. There are good manufactures and bad manufacturers in India. If medicines from India are banned then world go into a serious problem of lack of essential affordable medicines.
Thanks for informative video. The persons responsible must be expeditiously deported to the country where children have died to face criminal trial
India 🇮🇳 will protect their criminals
control sample controled by company sounds same as "as seen on TV" it works! but when get acual (usaly lesser quality than seen on TV) product it dosent work as well.
I went through Canada drugs to get Crestor it was made in India
All India made drugs are not bad.
That is why I don’t like buying generic drugs, the reason this drugs are cheap because the companies that made it don’t use the quality ingredients. This is now the result of cheap drugs and the greed of companies.
these pharma companies should be banned from the market.
and the top management should be registered and not be allowed to have a similar position again.
Prayers. For. The. Family.
Random topic but I’m in Thailand and there are so many artificial ingredients in food
Behaviour of indian are still so unhuman they are still defending this.i hope so next time medicine or syrups gonna tested on indian childre because it will give relief all others . Who are using btw medicine from india not allowed in our country..thanks.
Nowadays, it is prudent for parents or for that matter any individual, to check the ingredients list first before dispensing any kind of medicine.
This is scary.I take Metformin .Thank goodness something is being done but so sad for the parents
And I heard no significant compensation in Indonesia at all.
When the license was revoked, what's holding the capitalist to make new company and get new license? Nothing.
Ah... I remember an important detail. They are using dhyethelene glycol as substitute since it is not restricted.