A four-year-old girl from Chourai district in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, who had been undergoing treatment in Nagpur for nearly a month after consuming the now banned Coldrif cough syrup, died late on Tuesday. Ambika had been admitted to New Health City Hospital in Nagpur on September 14 and had been on ventilator support since then. The deceased is the daughter of one daughter of one Shripal Vishwakarma from Kakai-Bilva block in Chourai district.

According to her family, the sequence of events started in early September when Ambika’s cousin, Om (8), developed a cough and cold. His parents took him to a local doctor who prescribed Coldrif. After Om recovered, the same syrup was given to his sister Gungun (10) when she developed similar symptoms. Seeing both the kids recover, Ambika’s fat

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