In Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, 11 innocent people died due to kidney failure in 32 days. These children between 1 to 5 years of age had cold, cough and fever. All the children reached the same doctor. The doctor wrote medicines and the medical operator wife gave medicines.
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The children drank medicine and fever, the cough was cured, but two days later the urine stopped. Family members got treatment from Chhindwara to Nagpur, but their lives could not be saved. It is alleged that the condition of the children was done with a cuff syrup written by the doctor, which was not to be given to children below 4 years. In the case, CM Dr. Mohan Yadav has announced financial assistance of 4-4 lakhs, terming the deaths of 11 children in Chhindwara as tragic.
Dainik Bhaskar asked the doctor who treated the treatment directly … Why did you give that report to children younger than 4 years, read this report
First of all the events … 4 -year -old Shivam Rathore, who hails from Bagh Burgiya, about 15 km from Parasia, deteriorated on August 16. According to the family, the child had mild fever and cold, cough. One day, when the fever did not land, he showed Dr. Praveen Soni located at the railway station road in Parasia. He wrote phlegm syrup with fever. The medicine was given from his own medical store (his medical).
After giving the medicine, the child’s fever descended. Gave medicine for three consecutive days. The child started crying again on the fourth day. He told that there is stomach ache. The child’s stomach was bloating. There was swelling in the leg. The child was pushing, but the urine was not getting off.
Immediately took the child to Dr. Soni. The doctor checked and said, you have to check, you should get the child admitted to Parasia Civil Hospital. There were other investigations including blood, which led to some infection. The child was hurt when the urine was not urinated. The child was referred to the district hospital Chhindwara when there was no improvement for two days. Kidney infection was detected in the investigation here.
If the condition did not improve after being admitted for three days, then the family took Nagpur. The child died here on 2 September. This is what happened in all cases. The children drank phlegm syrup. Health was cured. After three to four days, stomach pain and urine stopped. The condition deteriorated and died after staying in the hospital for 10 to 15 days. Investigation in Nagpur found that the main cause of the death of all children is the kidney failure. Samples related to kidney were taken in the hospital, but no child was postmortem.
Bhaskar’s question, doctor’s answer …
Reporter: You are a pediatrician. Nearly all the children from Parasia come for treatment. How many years have been practicing? Dr. Praveen Soni: I have been practicing for 38 years.
Reporter: How long have you been writing the syrup that caused the health of children to deteriorate? Dr. Praveen Soni: I have been writing this medicine to children for 15 years.
Reporter: Have this type of complaint before? Dr. Praveen Soni: There has been no such incident before.
Reporter: Has any explanation from the administration seek any explanation in relation to cuff syrup? Dr. Praveen Soni: Has not been sought till now?
Reporter: Are you operating a private clinic even after being a government doctor? Dr. Praveen Soni: After completing duty in a government hospital, I run a private clinic.
Reporter: The name of your pharma has come out is your firm? Dr. Praveen Soni: Apna pharma is in the name of my wife. The medical store first saw a boy. He had made some mistake, after which wife Preeti Soni started handling.
Reporter: The administrative officer has taken information from you in this matter? Dr. Praveen Soni: The Chief Medical Officer has visited two later. He also issued a release regarding medicine.
Reporter: All the work is going on in the name of Apna Pharma, all are connected to you? Dr. Praveen Soni: No, it would be wrong to say so. No person has made such a name patented.
Reporter: Used to come directly to you from Jabalpur or through a mediator? Dr. Praveen Soni: There is a system, through that the medicine comes.
Reporter: Did you know about the content of the syrup you were writing? Dr. Praveen Soni: Copy content is written in the cover, no one tells what is hidden (hidden).
Reporter: … You have to say that this mistake is due to Hidden Content? Dr. Praveen Soni: I am .. because the content written is exact. There are at least 50 syrups in this way market.
Reporter: What are the administration by seizing 12 cuff syrup and sent for investigation? Dr. Praveen Soni: I have no idea about this. Nagpur Child Hospital was told about two medicines.
In this letter, it is said that children below 4 years of age not to give this medicine.
Family said- no one asked for PM When the family was talked to the family on the death of Sandhya Bhosam on 1 October, he said that no administrative officer even contacted him during treatment. Why not get the postmortem done? Administrative officials say that you guys refused. On this, Sandhya’s father said that no one approached him at the administrative level nor asked him to get the postmortem done.
SDM said- family did not agree to PM On the allegation of Sandhya’s family, Parasia SDM Shubham Yadav said- family members were talked about, but they did not agree to postmortem. All died in a hospital in Nagpur. We had correspondence, but the refusal of the family could not be postmortem.
66 bottles of Coldrif have been found.
Administration is conducting survey from house to house SDM Shubham Yadav said that the Parasia region has a population of 2.84 lakhs. Among them, there is a number of children below 25 thousand 5 years of age. Survey is being done from house to house continuously through the ground staff of the health department. 4658 children suffering from fever, cold and cough have been examined. Among them, 411 children reports have come, which are normal. In view of the medical emergency, a separate ICU ward has been created for children.
Chhindwara Collector banned syrup, transferred two days later In the case of death of children, both the syrup was banned by the then Chhindwara Collector Sheelendra Singh on the basis of the investigation report. He advised parents not to use it. Medicines were banned between medical emergency, but Chhindwara Collector was transferred to Bhopal only two days after the order.
One and a half year old Yogita was admitted to a private hospital in Nagpur. He died during treatment.
Team reached medical store to investigate for the second time The drug testing team arrived at the private clinic of Dr. Praveen Soni on Parasia’s Station Road on Friday. Even 5 days ago, the team came from Bhopal, the drug team of the district reached for investigation. Samples of medicine were taken here. In the case, the epidemic control team from Delhi and Bhopal is continuously reaching such areas from where the news of the death of children is coming.
Assistance of 4-4 lakhs, Kamal Nath said- 50 lakh two Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav has said that the death of children due to cold cuff syrup in Chhindwara district is very sad. The sale of this syrup in Madhya Pradesh has been banned in Madhya Pradesh after the investigation report of Coldrif Cuff Syrup. Coldrif syrup is being seized by raiding as a campaign in the state.
The Public Relations Department has quoted the Chief Minister as saying that financial assistance of Rs 4-4 lakh will be given to their family members who have died due to this syrup in Chhindwara. Also, the state government will bear the entire cost of treatment of children. On the other hand, former Chief Minister Kamal Nath has demanded financial assistance of Rs 50 lakh to the victim’s family.
Kamal Nath has demanded compensation of Rs 50 lakh to the families of the dead children.
Investigation samples found invalid Chief Minister Dr. Yadav said that samples of Coldriff Syrup were sent for examination when the incident of Chhindwara came to cognizance. Samples were found invalid in the investigation report on Saturday morning. Therefore, the sale of coldfront syrup has been banned across the state. A joint investigation team has also been formed at the state level. The culprits will not be spared at any cost.
48.6% dietalin glycol quantity found in investigation The Coldriff Syrup has been declared “Not of Standard Quality (NSQ)” by the Drug Controller of Tamil Nadu. According to the test of government drug analyst, drug testing laboratory, Chennai, this syrup has found 48.6% of the amount of diethylene glycol, which is a poisonous element and is severely harmful to health.
Controller Food and Drug Administration Dr. Dinesh Kumar Maurya has instructed the senior drug inspector and drug inspectors of the state to stop the sale and distribution of medicines with immediate effect. If this medicine is available, it should be sealed immediately and not destroyed, as there is a provision in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 and the rules.
Samples of related medicine should be compiled and sent to government medicine laboratories for testing. If other baches of coldfriend syrup are also available, they should also be sealed and sent for samples testing. In view of the public interest, the sale and use of all other medicines manufactured by Sresan Pharmaceutical has also been stopped with immediate effect and their samples are being compiled for legal testing. Also, there are instructions for strict monitoring on the movement of this medicine in the state.