The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has issued an advisory warning against the use of cough syrups in young children after 11 children died in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district has been shaken by the deaths of nine children in just over a fortnight due to kidney failure. Health officials in Madhya Pradesh and neighbouring Rajasthan, where a similar death was reported in Sikar a few days ago, now suspect that the cases of organ failure are linked to the consumption of contaminated cough syrups.

Among the nine children who died, at least five had a history of taking Coldref, and one had taken Nextro syrup. Private doctors have been instructed to exercise caution: any viral patient should not be treated privately but sent directly to the Ci

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