Even as the country comes to grips with deaths of children linked to contaminated cough syrup , an even deadlier crisis may be unfolding in Rajasthan: Widespread circulation of medicines that failed quality checks. The scale of the crisis was unearthed after the Rajasthan government suspended the state's drug controller over the ongoing cough syrup row.

Documents reviewed by India Today TV show that in the last one year, hundreds of drug samples in Rajasthan have failed laboratory tests . These include essential antibiotics, anti-allergics, painkillers, and anti-diabetic medicines. The trouble part is that many of these medicines were already sold in large numbers by the time the test reports flagged them as substandard.

Among the failed samples are some of the most commonly used d

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