Nearly 70 children have suffered horrific deaths in The Gambia as health experts link the crisis to four Indian-made cough medicines.
The World Health Organisation has issued an alert over four syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals
Parents have told of how they hoped their children would die to ease their suffering after ‘oozing blood from their mouth and nose’. In The Gambia, Wuri Bailo Keita’s two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever but the hospital sent her home with a prescription for a paracetamol syrup after diagnosing her with malaria.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatThe widening scandal has highlighted flaws in the tiny West African country’s healthcare system.
Police launched an inquiry and health authorities were told to suspend the import licence of a suspected company.Keita continued: ‘President Barrow should sack the health minister, but instead of sacking him, he was praising the minister.Social media has been swamped by criticism of the healthcare system and by photos of the children who have died, most of whom were aged under five.
Nancy Jallow, from an NGO called Global Bridges, said she was appalled that top officials such as Health Minister Ahmadou Lamin Samateh and the head of the Medicines Control Agency, Markieu Janneh Kaira, were still in their jobs.
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