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A six-year-old lad suffering from acute encephalon fever died astatine the state-run J.K. Lon Hospital successful Jaipur connected Saturday (October 4, 2025), hours aft helium was referred determination from Churu, where, his parents claimed, the kid was fixed a cough syrup astatine home.
The kid was admitted to a infirmary successful Churu for 3 days. His parents claimed they gave him a cough syrup astatine location earlier the lad was hospitalised, an authoritative said.
“Anas was admitted to the J.K. Lon infirmary astatine 4 a.m. connected Saturday and helium died astatine 10 a.m. The kid was suffering from acute encephalon fever,” the authoritative said.
This comes amid reports of deaths of 11 children, nine successful Madhya Pradesh and 2 successful Rajasthan, allegedly linked to contaminated cough syrup.
The 2 deaths successful Rajasthan were reported from Bharatpur and Sikar, and it is alleged that they were fixed a cough syrup nether the escaped medicine strategy astatine authorities hospitals.
However, officials claimed that the cough syrup successful question was recovered harmless aft investigating astatine a authorities laboratory.
State Health Minister Gajendra Singh Khimsar besides said determination was nary adulteration oregon fault, whatsoever, successful the medicine.
“We got the medicine checked twice. First our cause controller tested it and past the RMSCL tested it. Nothing incorrect was recovered successful it,” Mr. Khimsar said.
