Some 66 deaths in The Gambia may be linked to four syrups made by an India-based firm, world health officials say.
A global alert has been issued over four cough syrups after the World Health Organization warned they could be linked to the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.
The WHO identified the medicines as Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup. The number of deaths has declined since the ban but two more have been recorded in the past two weeks, Gambia health services director Mustapha Bittay told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
The substances were toxic, and their effects "can include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, inability to pass urine, headache, altered mental state and acute kidney injury which may lead to death," it added.
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