After the cough syrup deaths, now, a government hospital of Madhya Pradesh is under the lens, facing a complaint for worms allegedly found in a bottle of antibiotic medicine given to a child, officials informed on Thursday. Following the incident, the mother filed a complaint, after which the entire stock of Azithromycin antibiotic at the government hospital in Morar town of Gwalior district has been sealed.
The officials then informed that the samples have been sent to a laboratory in Bhopal for testing. The medicine was generic and manufactured by a Madhya Pradesh-based company.
Azithromycin antibiotic's oral suspension is commonly given to children for various infections.
Drug inspector Anubhuti Sharma said, "A woman at the government hospital in Morar complained of worms in a bottle of Azithromycin oral suspension."
Although the bottle of medicine that the woman had brought was open, the matter was immediately investigated, she added.
All 306 bottles of this medicine, which had been distributed and stored at the hospital in Morar, have been recalled and seized, the official said.
A preliminary probe of some of the medicine bottles revealed no signs of insects, but testing is necessary, she said.
Some of the bottles have been sent to a laboratory in Bhopal for testing. A sample of this medicine will also be sent to the Central Drug Laboratory in Kolkata, Sharma said.
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