Indian health officials have ordered a maker of cough syrups to halt production after they were linked to the deaths of children in The Gambia.
Maiden Pharmaceuticals broke rules “across its manufacturing and testing activities,” Indian regulators found.
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global alert over four of Maiden’s cough syrups linked to the deaths of almost 70 children.
Investigations are currently under way in India and The Gambia.
Regulators said that they had suspended all manufacturing activities at the New Delhi-based firm after finding it had broken a number of safety rules.
This was “in view of the seriousness of the contraventions observed during the investigation and its potential risk to the quality, safety and efficacy of the drug being produced,” they added.
