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2 more end up with renal failure

Rid's banned paracetamol syrup still in market, being prescribed to children

Staff Correspondent
Two more children are fighting for their lives with renal failure at Shishu Hospital as they were given Rid Pharma's Temset paracetamol syrup in late July.
This substantiates claims that Rid's drugs are still available in the market, especially in the rural areas, three weeks after the government ordered Rid Pharma's drugs to be taken off the shelf.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Sinthia and 15-month-old Tofayel are undergoing treatment at Dhaka Shishu Hospital after their village doctors gave them Temset paracetamol syrup of Rid Pharma.
Tofayel, who was brought to Dhaka from Brahmanpara of Comilla Friday, was givenTemset following high fever in late July by village doctor Monsur.
"When we saw he was not getting better, we took him to another doctor and finally brought him to this hospital." said Morsheda, mother ofTofayel, at Dhaka Shishu Hospital. She said she handed over the syrup to head of paediatric nephrology department Prof Hanif the day before yesterday.
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"The paracetamol syrup that was given toTofayel was manufactured on June, 2009 and batch number-8 was mentioned on the bottle," Prof Hanif told The Daily Star, adding that Sinthia of Monohardi, Narsingdi was also admitted to the hospital Monday with renal failure and she too was given Temset, of batch number-5 manufactured in May, 2009.
Sinthia's grandfather, who is a village doctor, collected the medicine two weeks ago when Sinthia was suffering from fever.
"We did not know anything about the government's order to withdraw all Rid s drugs since we neither have a television set nor subscribe to any newspaper," said Runa Akhter, mother of Sinthia.
"This means drugs of Rid Pharma Ltd are still available in the market, especially in rural areas. If the Drug Administration could follow the tracks of the company and find out where they sold their drugs, it might work," said Prof Hanif.
However, the director of the Drug Administration refuted the claim that Rid's drugs are available in the market.
"It is not true as our district superintendents collected all Rid's products from the market and they are still visiting pharmacies looking for these banned items. The Drug Administration has taken every possible step to stop the sale of this spurious drug, " he added.
Last week 10-month-old Rani of Syedpur under Plrgachha of Rangpur died of renal failure after she was given the poisonous drug. Her father bought it from a village market on July 26.
In the last one and a half months 26 children died of renal failure, most of them had taken Rid's paracetamol.