One more ends up with renal failure
Courtesy New Age 25/8/09
Rid's banned paracetamol syrup still being sold, prescribed
Four-year-old Eva fights acute renal failure at
One more child with paracetamol syrup-induced renal failure was admitted to
Eva, a four-year-old girl of Asadnagar
Sources said the medicines of the company are still being sold by quacks even after over one month of the government order for its withdrawal from market.
Soon after the death of more than 20 children with acute renal failure from June this year, the government ordered to withdraw Rid Pharma's products from the market on July 22. A total of 27 children have so far died of acute renal failure at
"Eva has been suffering from fever since August 14. When her father took her to village quack Sanjit, he gave the suspension. As her condition deteriorated after taking the medicine, we brought her to
The 60-ml Temset suspension was from batch 6 and its manufacturing date was June 2009 while the expiry date June 2011. The price of the suspension is only Tk 12.77, she showed.
"This is the third case from the same Brahmanpara area. According to the parents, they did not hear anything about the spurious drugs as they do not have radio and television, nor do they read newspaper. It was the duty of the local administration to make people aware of the drug," said Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics of Dhaka Shishu Hospital Prof Hanif.
"We have failed to withdraw the products from market and to create awareness among people at the same time. It is very unfortunate," said Dr Hanif, adding that the people from the Drug Administration even did not visit the hospital after admission of fresh patients following the government's withdrawal order of the medicine.
While talking to The Daily Star, Director of the Drug Administration Brig Gen Ismail Hossain said that he has no information regarding intake of Rid's paracetamol and fresh cases of renal failure.
Denying his failure to withdraw the drugs from the market even after a month of the government's order, he said that his drug superintendents visited all possible areas and advertised in newspapers and television to destroy the drugs.
"It is still not possible for me to do duty properly with inadequate manpower," he said, adding that if he had enough manpower to do this enormous task then he could be blamed for it.
"There might be manpower crisis in Drug Administration. But the government does not mean only the drug regulatory authority. What did the local government representatives do in this regard?" questioned president of Health Rights Movement Prof Rashid E Mahbub.
Even the health and family welfare assistants who visit house to house could play an important role in this regard as it involves lives of children, Prof Rashid said.
Though four cases were filed by the Drug Administration under the
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