Another girl died after drinking poisonous cough syrup in Chhindwara. Thus far 26 children have died. The primary cause of death of children is said to be kidney failure, but it was not limited to this only. Diethylene glycol chemical included in cough syrup
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The most frightening aspect of this is that the children’s brain had stopped functioning due to the poisonous medicine. In this case, postmortem of 3 children has been done, but the administration and health department are suppressing its report. Many children who use drugs are still undergoing treatment in a hospital in Nagpur.
After all, how did a simple cold and cough medicine destroy the children’s body to such an extent that they could not return to their old lives? Bhaskar spoke to forensic experts, toxicologists and pediatricians who had treated the children. read the report
Poisonous syrup created acid in the body To understand how this syrup killed the children, we spoke to Dr. Vinod Dhingra, toxicologist at Gwalior Medical College. He told that the ‘diethylene glycol’ mixed in cough syrup is the same chemical which is used in the coolant that keeps the vehicles cool. This is extremely dangerous for the human body.
Citing an American Journal report, Dr. Dhingra explained, ‘When this chemical enters the human body, it gets metabolized and forms many poisonous acids. Due to this, the amount of acid in the body increases dangerously, which is called ‘Metabolic Acidosis’.
Its first and fatal effect is on the kidneys and they stop functioning. After this, this poison starts filling the lungs with water, which makes breathing difficult. Ultimately, it also causes severe damage to the brain and central nervous system.
If there was a postmortem of every child, many secrets would be revealed. Dr. Ashok Sharma, former director of Madhya Pradesh’s Medico Legal Institute and forensic expert, points to a major lapse in this case. He says, ‘When children were dying due to similar symptoms, the administration should have immediately decided to conduct postmortem of every child.
In post-mortem, through viscera (samples of internal organs) and histopathology (microscopic examination of tissues), it becomes clear how much poisonous chemical reached which part of the body and how much damage it caused to which organ. For this, Dr. Sharma gives the example of Bhopal gas tragedy.
He says that when the postmortem and histopathology examination of those who died in the Bhopal gas tragedy was done, it was conclusively revealed that the gas also contained a poison like cyanide, which had the greatest effect on the lungs.
Doctors’ eyes saw: ‘All the organs of the children had failed’ When the children were brought to hospitals in Nagpur after drinking cough syrup, initially the doctors also thought that it was a normal case of kidney failure. Dr Rajesh Aggarwal, senior pediatrician from Nagpur, who treated several children, recalls the horrifying scene, “When the children reached us, initially we thought it was kidney failure.
As soon as we started dialysis, his condition started worsening. Then we realized that it was not just kidney problem but multi-organ failure. The poison had reached his liver, lungs and brain.” He says, ‘The saddest thing was that the parents did not know that they were giving poison to their children in the name of medicine.
He kept giving the full dose of cough syrup as per the prescription written by the doctor. When we looked at the prescriptions of many children and found that ‘Coldrif’ syrup was common in all of them, we became suspicious.
First alarm bell and silence of administration Dr. Pawan Nandurkar, pediatrician of Chhindwara Medical College, was the first person who raised alarm bells in this entire matter. He says, ‘By the time the children reached our district hospital, they had become very critical. We did not have time to understand him or give him long treatment, so without any delay we referred him to Nagpur for better treatment.
Till then we also did not know why this was happening. The truth was revealed when the kidney biopsy report of a child came from Nagpur. Dr. Nandurkar explains, ‘The biopsy report revealed ‘acute tubular injury’, which is caused by some external poisonous substance. That’s when we suspected that it could be due to cough syrup.
CMHO said – postmortem report not received Despite all this, the administration took 15 days to ban cough syrup. By then other children had also used it. The administration did not take any concrete steps to find out the exact cause of the deaths. Chhindwara CMHO Naresh Gonnade says that even he has not received the report of the children whose postmortem has been done. At present, the families of the children who are admitted in the hospital are hoping for a miracle.
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On October 15, 3 years and 6 months old Ambika Vishwakarma died during treatment in Nagpur.
The series of deaths of children due to poisonous cough syrup is not stopping in Chhindwara district. On Wednesday morning, another innocent girl, 3 years 6 months old Ambika Vishwakarma from Chaurai area, died during treatment in Nagpur. With this death, the number of children who died due to syrup incident in Madhya Pradesh has now reached 26. Presently two more children are fighting between life and death in the hospitals of Nagpur. Read full news
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