Grieving parents say regulators in both India and The Gambia failed their young children.
"If you see the tragedy, and the kind of alerts declared by WHO, so many countries are thinking twice. They are regularly enquiring. It's not very comfortable. I call it an aberration. It's a costly aberration," says Udaya Bhaskar, director general of the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India.
But India has announced steps such as making it compulsory for companies to get cough syrup samples tested at government-approved laboratories before exporting. The Gambia, which does not have drug testing laboratories, has alsoIndia has also set deadlines for its pharma companies to adopt WHO-standard good manufacturing practices.But some Indian activists allege that the country has had a "two-tier manufacturing system" for a long time.
A recent Gambian government report on the tragedy has recommended the establishment of a quality control laboratory and two drug regulators have been dismissed. Momodou Dambelleh, who sells wood for a living, was one of them. He last saw Aminata, his 22-month-old daughter, on a video call as she lay unresponsive on a hospital bed.
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