Five fake drugs found after one kills 5
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-19 20:11
Five drugs made by a Chinese pharmaceutical company have been proved fake,
including an injection fluid that killed five people in a month, Friday's
Beijing News reported.
A patient receives treatment in a local
hospital in Guangzhou, capital city of south's China Guangdong province
May 15, 2006. The patient shows symptoms of acute renal failure and has
been found to have taken a fake injection produced by a chemical works in
Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang Provinc. The concerfeit medicine
have led to five deaths. [Xinhua] |
Five people died and six others were hospitalized after they received a drug
called Armillarisni A for gallbladder inflammation that contained the chemical,
diglycol, that can cause kidney failure, said China's State Food and Drug
Administration on Friday.
The counterfeit ingredient was also found in another four drugs produced by
Qiqihar No. 2 Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. in China's northeastern Heilongjiang
province.
The company has been shut down and its products banned while police has
detained a drug dealer named Wang Guiping who sold diglycol to the company.
In Beijing, the government has sealed up over 6,000 boxes of eight drugs from
the company though it has received no reports of negative reactions.
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