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5 Children From MP Critical After Consuming Contaminated Cough Syrup: Minister

State Health Rajendra Shukla said that a total of 20 children, 17 from Chhindwara, 2 from Betul and 1 from Pandhurna have died.

Chhindwara: Five children from Madhya Pradesh are in a critical condition while 20 have died due to kidney infections caused by the consumption of a "contaminated" cough syrup, state Health Rajendra Shukla said on Wednesday. A police team from Chhindwara in MP has gone to Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu to arrest the owner of the company that manufactures Coldrif cough syrup, Shukla told reporters after meeting families of the deceased children.

The children died due to suspected kidney failure, linked to the consumption of the "toxic" Coldrif cough syrup, as

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