It is ‘shameful’ that despite numerous regulatory bodies at the national and state levels for ensuring quality of medicines being manufactured at various places, contaminated cough syrups were allowed to reach the market, leading to tragic deaths of over 20 toddlers. This has raised many questions about the accountability of the watchdogs and exposed serious flaws in the drug regulatory system. How could such a grievous failure occur under the watch of multiple agencies, and why have those responsible to regulate the quality have been left to go scot-free?

The silence and inaction in the face of such a tragedy reflect a systemic rot that demands to be addressed on urgent basis. It has become a matter of ‘national shame’ that a country which boasted on all platforms of being one among the

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