26 The WHO has called for "immediate and concerted action" to protect children from contaminated medicines after more than 300 children - mainly aged under 5 - in Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan died of acute kidney injury, in deaths that were associated with contaminated cough syrup. (www.reuters.com) posted 1 year ago by GDZeus 1 year ago by GDZeus +26 / -0 WHO urges 'immediate action' after cough syrup deaths The World Health Organization has called for "immediate and concerted action" to protect children from contaminated medicines after a spate of child deaths linked to cough syrups last year. 4 comments share 4 comments share save hide report block hide replies
The reputation of the WHO must be suffering. Time to write a story about children who died from (you know what) but blame it on cough syrup. Then, prop the WHO up as taking some arbitrary positive action.