New India Death Blamed on Same Antibiotics Used in Sterilization Camp
New India death blamed on same antibiotics used in sterilization camp – One person has died and six more were hospitalized after consuming antibiotic tablets apparently from the same batch blamed for more than a dozen deaths following a sterilization camp in eastern India, two hospital officials said on Friday.
The patients were being treated at the Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences where one of them died, the officials from the hospital said.
Women operated on by other doctors at different camps have also been hospitalized after consuming the same drugs. More than 100 remain in hospital, several in a critical condition.
Mahawar Pharmaceuticals, run from an upscale residential street in the eastern city of Raipur, is now at the center of a probe into more than a dozen deaths in eastern India after 83 women were sterilized at a government-run family planning camp.
The Times of India newspaper said they denied wrongdoing, saying that if their widely distributed drugs were to blame, more people would have died.
Police say they entered the Mahawar factory on Wednesday with the help of a security guard, but at first found nothing wrong. Drug inspectors returned the next day and shut it down, but not before two men were seen lighting a pre-dawn fire out back.
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