Gambia

Some of these collected samples contained the same toxins found in cough syrups linked to the deaths of children in Gambia, Uzbekistan, and Cameroon

A plane carrying Gambia's national soccer team made an emergency landing after a sudden loss of oxygen during their flight to compete in the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. A chartered flight on Wednesday carrying the Scorpions returned to Gambia's capital Banjul after being airborne for nine minutes when the crew realised there were technical problems, Gambia's Football Federation said in a statement on Facebook. Upon landing, preliminary investigations indicated that there was loss of cabin pressure and oxygen, the federation said. The operating company for the flight, Air Cote d'Ivoire, is further assessing the situation to establish what caused the lack of oxygen and cabin pressure, it said. The players were on their way to compete in the Africa Cup in Ivory Coast, which begins on Saturday. This is the 34th edition of the biennial tournament, which was supposed to be played in June and July last year but was postponed to avoid Ivory Coast's tropical rainy season. Gambia's ..

Indian-made cough syrups have been linked to the deaths of at least 141 children in Gambia, Uzbekistan and Cameroon since last year

Families of 20 of the children have already sued the two companies as well as Gambian authorities

From cough syrup to eyedrops to life-saving medications, quality lapses in one country can now endanger lives elsewhere as never before

A report by a team of international experts blamed tainted medicine from India for an outbreak of kidney failure that killed more than 60 Gambian children last year

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The new rule highlights how governments are reassessing their reliance on India's $42 billion pharmaceutical industry since the contamination came to light last year

Gambia has hired a U.S. law firm to explore legal action after a government-backed investigation found that contaminated medicines from India were "very likely" to have caused the deaths of children

The firm ran into trouble after the US FDA informed it of 55 cases of adverse events on the use of its eye drops, some of which caused permanent loss of vision and at least one caused death

The new investigation strongly suggests that medicines contaminated with the toxins, imported into Gambia, led to the cluster of acute kidney injury among 78 children

The company has denied its drugs were at fault for the deaths in Gambia and tests by an Indian government laboratory found there were no toxins in them

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WHO, however, said samples tested in Ghana and Switzerland were found to be contaminated

A parliamentary committee in The Gambia has recommended prosecution of an Indian manufacturer of cough syrups suspected of causing the deaths of at least 70 children in the West African country

Health ministry sources say no immediate plan to allow plant to re-open, it was closed for non-compliance with GMP, not for contamination issues

Asserts that testing done in labs in Ghana and Switzerland confirmed excess levels of contaminated syrups that are "dangerous and should not be in any medicine, ever"

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