KEY TAKE HOME MESSAGES AND ACTION POINTS FOR THE PUBLIC: WHO ALERT ON FOUR CONTAMINATED PAEDIATRIC COUGH SYRUPS

PHARMACY BOARD OF SIERRA LEONE

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT

TOPIC: WHO ALERT ON CONTAMINATED PAEDIATRIC SYRUPS

 KEY POINTS /TAKE HOME MESSAGE FOR THE PUBLIC

A.      Source of the Alert: WHO

Date: 5^th October 2022

B.      Medical Products

1.      Promethazine Oral Solution

2.      Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup

3.      Makoff Baby Cough Syrup

4.      Magrip n Cold Syrup

C.      Manufacturer: Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited ( Haryana India)

D.     Issue with Medical Product

 -          Product contaminated with Diethylene Glycol and Ethylene Glycol  in unacceptable amounts 

E.      DANGER presented by the contaminants Diethylene Glycol ( DEG) and Ethylene Glycol ( EG)

-          These contaminants cause the following toxic effects : abdominal pain vomiting diarrhoaea inability to pass urine headache altered mental state and acute kidney injury which may lead to death 

F.       Number of deaths already: 66 children

G.     ACTION POINTS FOR THE PUBLIC

-         Pharmacy Board doesn’t have these Medical Products in it’s database or on the pharmaceutical market 

Contaminated Medical Products

1.      Promethazine Oral Solution

2.      Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup

3.      Makoff Baby Cough Syrup

4.      Magrip n Cold Syrup

                IF YOU COME ACROSS THESE PRODUCTS IN SIERRA LEONE

-          DO NOT BUY THESE PRODUCTS

-          CALL PHARMACY BOARD OF SIERRA LEONE ON 073994830 or 099117117/ if you come into contact with these products anytime

-          REPORT any medicine related sign and symptom by calling PBSL on 099117117 or send an email to info@pharmacyboard.gov.sl OR download fill and submit via email the Individual Case Safety Report Form ( Adverse Drug Reaction Form) from our website www.pharmacyboard.gov.sl.[1]