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Our lives are being maneuvered and we are being manipulated by unelected, insidious forces, toward objectives not necessarily in the people’s interest.

Now that the so-called “pandemic”, declared by the mysterious self-appointed World Health Organization, and followed obediently by governments everywhere, has been decreed “finished”, we should devote a moment to introspection, considering who is running the show and for whose benefit, as governments gaily abdicated their vested responsibility to govern.

Pandemic is over? I hope they told those killer viruses who destroyed the population of Europe and North America. What? Oh, just 1% mortality? And that 1% mostly old, sick, fat folks riddled with comorbidities? How interesting. Get a booster.

Cui bono? Who benefited from the mammoth lockdowns, forced injections, prescription of powerful, deadly medications and jamming of lethal respirators down the throats of elderly, often demented patients? Have people forgotten already how hospitals became like prisons, and families often had to get a court order in order to force them to release a family member, or halt medications they did not approve of: “Remdesivir” (which nurses used to refer to as “Run! Death is near!”) causes kidney failure, and was being prescribed to patients already diagnosed with … kidney failure. Then, in mid-2022 the WHO suddenly did a volte-face and recommended against it.

Who is the WHO, and how have previously sovereign states obligingly sacrificed their independent judgment to it? Advertising itself as “Working with 194 Member States across 6 regions and on the ground in 150+ locations, the WHO team works to improve everyone’s ability to enjoy good health and well-being.” Founded in 1948 as an arm of the fledgling United Nations, like any unimpeded bureaucratic monster, the World Health Organization has swollen to gargantuan proportions, and has a gargantuan appetite, which can only be sated with a gargantuan budget … Do you see where this is going?

Our hidden masters who pull the strings of the governments and corporations adhere to the time-honored principle of “Never let a crisis go to waste” and if the crisis is a tempest in a teapot, well then, use the obedient media to whip up fear and panic among the buffaloed masses, so a flu variant becomes a humanity-destroying monster. Yes, I’m talking about the recent wave of flu infections – oh sorry, “Covid-19”. Give it a scary Hollywood name.

Do you, dear readers, recall those dramatic early-on videos of Wuhan citizens keeling over dead from the mystery virus (which many pranksters loved to tease the Chinese by calling it “Wu-Flu”)? Strangely enough, that horror movie never played out in the rest of the world, or am I mistaken? Are there videos of pedestrians strolling along in Düsseldorf, or Chicongo, or Osaka, and then toppling over kaput? No? I wonder why.

If you are a conspiracy theorist, you might well wonder whether total social control over the masses was not the real goal, from the outset. “Scare them half to death with a mystery medical panic – then sell them the potentially lethal poison to finish the job” may have been the motto of “Big Pharma”, whose money-glazed tentacles stretched through every aspect of medicine, academia, Government… turn on your computer; check out the video montages called “Brought to you by Pfizer” on YouTube, to see how money doesn’t just talk – it never shuts up. Billions were lathered around, so that many more billions could be squeezed from the public purse.

Big Pharma makes big billions – government does what government does: extend control over each and every citizen, with a “digital ID”. For your own good and public health! See how it works?

Yes, this is no “conspiracy theory”, no. Yes, it is a conspiracy by the World Economic Forum, with its 15-minute cities, no more automobile or steak for your family, Buster – shut up, sit still in your locked-down flat and eat those bugs.

The Critical Difference: “Dying from Covid-19” in that corner, vs. “Dying with Covid-19” in this corner. The first combatant? Miniscule. Around 1%, which statistically signifies “margin of error”. The second refers to those poor souls already riddled with comorbidities, obese, polluted by their junk food and smokes. They were 75% toward Death’s Door anyway – why not give them that “extra push” with Mengele-injections and forced intubation?

Note how the medical establishment, swimming in money from Big Pharma at this point, strongly discouraged any discussion of natural immunity, in their rush, their amazing rush to inject an experimental gene therapy into toddlers, teenagers, anybody within range – most of whom were more than willing to be lab rats for Big Pharma. Experimental Animals’R’Us!

Those not afflicted with memory loss will recall the Presidents and Prime Ministers and Health Poobahs guaranteeing that with the magical jabs we would not fall ill with the dreaded Covid. That story changed because it had to. Then it became “Oh yes, you can still get Covid but it is milder than if you’d not been injected”. The story shifted at each point, as celebs and politicos got their arms pumped with gene therapy on television while grinning … Or was it? Not saline solution perhaps, for those “in the know”?

Hey, look over there – it is American Defense Secretary Colin Powell – you know, the dude holding up the bag of yellow powder which was Saddam Hussein’s nuclear bomb instant mix. Colin Powell had been vaxxed out the kazoo, with multiple boosters, and Colin Powell is what cynical docs refer to as “room temperature”: he ain’t movin’, folks, that feller’s daid.

Early on, strange, unexpected, painful results were being reported from injections of the “vaccine”, which earned its “quotation marks” from being the beneficiary of a refreshened definition of what a vaccine was and was not. Rabies, smallpox, tetanus, polio and so on: prepared from weakened or dead viral matter. That’s what defines “vaccine”.

mRNA: experimental gene therapy, never submitted to proper double-blind trials to ascertain long-term effects. Thus, mysterious cases of athletes collapsing during play (and not infrequently dying on the spot), morticians reporting mysterious fibrous wads found in the blood vessels of autopsies, cases of myocardia and pericardia, conditions inflicting permanent and irreversible damage on the heart muscle, appearing in 15-year-olds, 8-year-olds, and being called “mild…”, “rare” or “…inconsequential”.

Astoundingly-low rates of Covid-19 infection reported from Africa (mostly by Japanese researchers, who were much less compromised or bought off by the global authorities). Was that linked to their steady use of Nobel Prize-winning Ivermectin? No, nothing to see here, move along now, forget about the horse dewormer. Such a propaganda campaign for the miracle jabs and against a cheap prophylactic.

Oh wait, a new variant has been reported, so you need a booster, Buster.

That never seemed to happen with traditional killers. There is not relentless “booster campaign” for tetanus or polio. (Rabies, yes, get your kitty her shots every six months.)

Who were these mysterious authorities to whom governments around the world were sacrificing their decision-making to? Let’s take a close look at WHO, and the sinister money-lubed forces behind it.

Money plays a role, from the git-go. Oh, you have heard those lyrics before?

Consider the “regulatory capture” factor, something the inconvenient Covid-heretic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about. In the much-trumpeted democratic republics, where vox populi is supposed to be championed and held up as a model, mass mandates, lockdowns, a fear campaign, media control, non-conforming physicians threatened with the loss of their careers – all played a part, singing a melody trumpeted by mass media, all crooning “Get the jab, safe and effective”.

Was that true? has a part, and last but not least, allowing unelected bodies that shouldn’t even exist at the federal levels, make decisions that negate our inalienable rights, also having “democracy” decide issues of science.

“Rest homes” for the elderly became extermination camps, with stratospherically-soaring death rates – and not from the effects of the coronavirus. Every death that could be attributed to this “flavor-of-the-month” disease yielded $13,500 to hospitals, often teetering on bankruptcy before the great money-spinner appeared on the scene (too many indigent patients – obese lazy smokers living on grease, sugar and preservatives – not able to pay their bills).

Apart from the millions suffering permanent damage or even-more-permanent death from the fancy, untested “vaccines”, there is the big issue of “truth decay”. Loss of trust in the medical establishment is no joke. When the customers start to balk at what the purported “experts” are prescribing for them, and going to court to fight the institutions, you know something is wrong.

1918 “Spanish Flu” death rate = 35%. 2019 “Wu-Flu” death rate = ~1%, and that includes many deeply-unhealthy citizens already at death’s door.

Vaccine injuries: oh let’s not talk about that. There isn’t time. All line up for your 43^rd booster now, before yet another profitable variant is screamed out over the TV, and that 43^rd turns out to be ineffective.

Actual scene in government hospital, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia: uncle is ailing, has been quite weak and sick for several years. Now he picks up the dreaded <tee hee> “Covid-19” virus, and how does that happen? With a PCP test the inventor of which claimed repeatedly cannot correctly diagnose this type of viral infection. Check out inventor Kary Mullis.

Uncle turns up his toes, buys the farm, checks out, leaves the building, is “lights out”, abandons this mortal realm.

Immediately after the family is told of his death, a smiling hospital employee in a white smock shows up and says “Hey, if you’ll sign right here on the dotted line – we’re going to give you sixty million Rupiah! [equivalent to US$ 4000 at the time of writing this essay]

The grieving family is bewildered at this. Money? For our dead uncle? No thanks, Hank. They edge away, suspicious, knowing full well that nobody gives away free money these days without expecting something in return.

In return? Oh yes: the hospital would have been paid Rp 180 million for that “certified death from Covid-19”, taking away a handsome Rp 120 million ( = US$ 8000) as a reward. What’s going on here? Families of patients dying from typhus, diabetes, heart failure, cancer – they’re not offered bribes to sign. Unless the above-mentioned illnesses can miraculously be re-diagnosed as the coronavirus.

Doesn’t something stink? Have we forgotten the Nürnberg Trials of 1947, where Nazi doctors were experimenting on hapless prisoners with all sorts of dangerous, even lethal, substances? The ultimate casualty is the trust of the public. Millions upon millions of citizens are backing away, avoiding hospitals, consulting with Dr. Google on the sly when their family physician smiles, frowns and dispenses medical wisdom.

Trust is lost. As any experienced businessman can assure you, that’s a big one, as trust is exceedingly difficult to ever repair again.

Follow the money. Be alert to the creeping control.

Who voted for WHO? Nobody did, that’s who. You’re being handled and WHOdwinked – and you’re paying for it.

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Kazakhstan and the WHO Regional Committee for Europe signed a two-year cooperation agreement on Wednesday, October 25, during the 73rd session of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Kazinform News Agency reports via the Kazakh Ministry of Healthcare.

“Under the agreement signed today with the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the World Health Organization will allocate 1.8 million US dollars to Kazakhstan for the development of its healthcare sector. These funds will be spent on provision of expert, methodological and technical support to improve medical staff’s potential, protection of health of mothers, newborns,children and teenagers, fight with cancer and other non-infectious diseases, HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis, medical personnel training, communication with the population and other areas,” Minister of Healthcare of Kazakhstan Azhar Giniyat said a briefing.

She pointed out the importance of the Global Primary Healthcare Conference and the 73^rd session of the WHO Committee for Europe, which brought together healthcare ministers, WHO experts, professionals from more than 80 member-countries of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, as well as the representatives of partner organizations and civil society.

Dr Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, highly praised the level of digitalization in healthcare of Kazakhstan, which helps address personnal shortage problems in the sector. He also commended the inclusion of psychologists to the country’s primary healthcare system. 

Source: Kazinform

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Representatives from 53 countries gathered at the 73rd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe in Astana, Kazakhstan, have unanimously adopted a resolution in support of a Framework for action on the health and care workforce in the WHO European Region, covering the years 2023 to 2030. 

The framework comes at a critical time when all countries in the Region are struggling to retain and recruit sufficient numbers of health and care workers with the right mix of skills to meet the growing and changing needs of patients. The resolution acts as a foundation to help fix this health workforce crisis and will see WHO/Europe supporting governments in the Region as they implement it over the coming years.

“This is an important day for the millions of health and care workers living in our Region, as the unanimous adoption of this resolution demonstrates,” said WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge. “This high-level political commitment shows that countries are ready to put into action concrete measures that will tackle the health workforce crisis and build workplaces where health workers are valued, respected and protected.”

The new Framework sets out 5 key actions that countries can take to protect and support their health and care workers.

Retain and recruit.

This includes policy actions to improve the working conditions of health and care workers, including reducing heavy workloads and excessive working hours, providing more flexibility in contract arrangements and ensuring fair remuneration. These actions will help improve the mental health and well-being of health workers and increase the attractiveness of health jobs, including in rural areas, for existing health workers and for new generations of young students.

Build supply.

This means modernising health education and training, including building digital health competencies to create a fit-for-purpose health workforce for present and future health services demands and needs.

Optimize performance.

This includes measures to increase efficiency of the limited numbers of health workers available in the health system. It is about innovative reconfiguration of health services, using digital health technologies, and redefining teams and skill mix so that the actions they perform add value.

Plan.

Health workforce planning is essential for anticipating future needs of the health system and for taking actions to meet them now. Strengthening the capacity of human resources for health (HRH) units and improving HRH information systems can contribute to this.

Invest.

Increase public investment and optimize the use of funds, while making the economic and social case for investing in the health and care workforce.

Tackling one of the most pressing crises of our times

The adoption of this historic resolution is the culmination of a series of measures spearheaded by WHO/Europe to address the current health workforce crisis.

During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, WHO/Europe urged countries to do more to protect health and care workers on the frontlines, who often faced unprecedented levels of stress and burnout, as well as higher death rates due to COVID-19 infection.

Then, in September 2022, WHO/Europe launched a landmark report warning of a “ticking timebomb” threatening health systems, unless governments did more to invest in and protect their health and care workers, while learning lessons from the pandemic.

“Health and care workers are the pillars of our health systems — millions of women and men caring for the ill and the vulnerable, day and night. Supporting them, protecting them and ensuring they feel valued and appreciated is a moral imperative that we cannot ignore,” said Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, WHO/Europe’s Director of Country Health Policies and Systems.

“We at WHO/Europe now hope that with the adoption of this historic framework countries will be able to tackle the health-care workforce crisis with concrete measures that support their mental health, improve working conditions and make workplaces more attractive for retaining staff, while also encouraging more young people to join the health sector.”

In March 2023, WHO/Europe convened a regional meeting in Bucharest, Romania, where more than 250 participants from 50 countries adopted the Bucharest Declaration. This called for action to improve the supply of health and care workers, measures to improve their retention and recruitment, better strategic health and care workforce planning, and greater and smarter public investment. Participants also committed to optimize the performance of the health and care workforce in their countries.

Source: World Health Organization

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WHO/Europe asked youth activists and youth organizations from across Europe and central Asia what they see as the most pressing public health challenges of their time. Many mentioned climate change and the sustainability of health systems, while others expressed concern over the scourge of noncommunicable diseases and a rapidly ageing population.

“I believe the 3 greatest public health challenges of the next 25 years will be related to the changing climate and our destroying of ecosystems, increasing global and regional conflict, and avoidable health inequities and barriers to health care,” said Juliane Mirow, 22, from Germany.

“The greatest problem that humanity will face in the future is that which is posed by climate change and of course the health implications of that. Our greatest strength is technology, and particularly its ability to connect people in order to solve humanity’s most pertinent issues,” said Nadhira Samsudeen, 22, from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, member of the nongovernmental organization Student MedAid London.

Judita Perndrecaj, 26, from Albania, is concerned about new diseases: “One of the greatest public health challenges of the next 75 years are new infectious diseases as well as chronic conditions.”

To respond to these and other concerns and to increase engagement with youth representatives on pressing public health challenges, WHO/Europe has today formally launched Youth4Health, its first-ever youth network on health and well-being. The network already includes over 80 individual members and 18 youth organizations from 29 countries across Europe and central Asia.

Admissions to the network are rolling. All youth organizations, organizations working in the youth space, Member State youth delegates, youth activists, people with an interest and experience in health and well-being, and youth parliamentarians are encouraged to apply if they are:

• based in the WHO European Region; and
• between the ages of 10 and 30.

At the first Youth4Health forum held in 2022 in Tirana, Albania, WHO/Europe and youth representatives agreed on concrete action points for increased youth engagement, including the establishment of a WHO/Europe youth network. This key commitment has now been turned into reality with the launch of the network today.

The Youth4Health network will serve as a platform for meaningful youth engagement to ensure youth participation in all areas of WHO/Europe’s work. It will not only connect youth representatives with WHO/Europe, but also serve as a strong mechanism to connect young people who are passionate about health and well-being and want to accelerate change, including young people with fewer opportunities.

“Are young people being heard? Are their needs respected? Do they have access to health systems that are inclusive and equitable? We need to engage with them to discuss how we can do better. That’s why we’ve launched the Youth4Health network and that’s why this network will make a difference. Young people are the changemakers of tomorrow and of today. They need a seat at the table to express their opinions and ideas, and it’s our job to listen to them and deliver,” explained Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe.

Juliane, Judita and Nadhira are among the first members. “I joined the Youth4Health network to be part of a young community that will drive change in the WHO European Region,” says Juliane. “I want to stand up for my beliefs and contribute to just, innovative and more sustainable health systems.”

Youth engagement at WHO/Europe

Since 2021, WHO/Europe has increased efforts to engage youth as equal partners in health and well-being decision-making. As highlighted below, youth representatives have influenced and led tangible changes across WHO/Europe’s work.

• Learning from the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO/Europe recognized that young people are critical agents in health emergency preparedness, response and recovery. Therefore, in 2023, WHO/Europe consulted youth to develop a tool for national and local health authorities, United Nations agencies, youth-serving organizations and other interested organizations on how to involve youth in all stages of emergencies.
• In November 2022, young members of the Pan-European Mental Health Coalition demanded that young people be supported to lead mental health system change. Since then, WHO/Europe and a youth working group have been jointly developing a framework that guides how the Coalition will achieve meaningful youth participation. The framework will be published on World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2023.
• At the Seventh Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Budapest, Hungary, in July 2023, a youth working group led youth consultations and presented a youth declaration including concrete asks for decision-makers. The European Environment and Health Process Partnership on Youth, which was launched at the conference, works with WHO/Europe on the implementation of the youth declaration, including how the youth statement will be brought to the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

What’s next?

WHO/Europe will engage the Youth4Health network across all its workstreams and is planning youth events, such as a youth event on immunization in December, as well as ensuring that youth representatives are engaged in events with high-level decision-makers. Together with the network, WHO/Europe also advocates for youth representatives to be included in delegations to the 73rd session of the WHO Regional Committee in Astana, Kazakhstan, in October, which brings together all 53 Member States of the WHO European Region.

Source: Reliefweb

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Representatives from 50 out of 53 Member States of the WHO European Region have joined health workers, their unions and associations, along with academics and experts, in adopting a bold declaration urging political action and commitment to protect, support and invest in health and care workers across Europe and central Asia.

Adopted at a landmark regional meeting in Bucharest co-organized by WHO/Europe and the Romanian Ministry of Health, the Bucharest Declaration comes against the backdrop of a serious crisis affecting health workers across the Region, including strikes and industrial action.

“The health workforce crisis in Europe is no longer a looming threat – it is here and now. Health providers and workers across our region are clamouring for help and support,” said Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe. “The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of health systems and the importance of a robust and resilient health workforce. We cannot wait any longer to address the pressing challenges facing our health workforce. The health and well-being of our societies are at stake – there is simply no time to lose.”

During the past year, Europe has seen a mounting number of strikes among health-care workers, citing challenging working conditions and insufficient resources. In France, for example, doctors and nurses held a nationwide strike in November 2022, with over 100 000 health-care workers participating. In September 2022, more than 6000 nurses in Ireland went on strike over concerns about low pay and poor working conditions. Similarly, in Germany, thousands of health-care workers participated in a nationwide strike in August 2022, for similar reasons. And in the United Kingdom, strikes and walkouts by doctors, nurses and ambulance staff have severely impacted the health system for months.  

“This industrial action clearly reflects the growing frustration and concern among health-care workers across our region, further highlighting the urgent need for multi-pronged action to support and invest in the health and care workforce,” Dr Kluge explained. 

A regional report published by WHO/Europe in September last year warned of a “ticking timebomb” threatening health systems in Europe and central Asia. With the Region experiencing a fast-ageing population and ageing health workforce, a surge in chronic illnesses and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the report warned of imminent collapse in key areas of countries’ health systems unless quick, concrete political actions tackled these issues –starting with the health workforce. 

The report highlighted that in 13 out of the 44 countries providing data, 40% of medical doctors are already aged 55 years or older, which poses a significant challenge to the sustainability of the workforce. At the same time, labour markets are changing with increasingly complex worker mobility and migration. As a result, some countries are finding it increasingly difficult to attract and retain young people in the health and care professions.

Despite historically high numbers of health and care workers across the European Region, national health systems are struggling to keep up with the rising demand for health care, exacerbated by service backlogs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, rising expectations from patients and the health risks posed by climate change and emergencies.  

The COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened the strains on health care, leading to stress, burnout and violence directed at workers, many of whom have left their jobs. During the first wave of the pandemic in spring 2020, the Region saw a staggering 62% increase in health worker absences. An increase in mental health issues among health-care workers has been reported in almost all countries in the Region, and in some countries, over 80% of nurses have reported some form of pandemic-related psychological distress. In addition, WHO/Europe received reports that 9 out of 10 nurses had declared their intention to quit their jobs.

In response to these challenges, the Bucharest Declaration calls for political action to: 

1. improve the recruitment and retention of health and care workers
2. improve health workforce supply mechanisms 
3. optimize the performance of the health and care workforce 
4. better plan the health and care workforce 
5. increase public investment in workforce education, development and protection. 

The Declaration recognizes the links between these priorities and the need for collaboration with all stakeholders, including health and care workforce representatives, their employers, national ministries of finance and education, and international non-profit organizations, trusts and foundations.

“Ignoring the challenges facing the health and care workforce is no longer possible,” said Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, WHO/Europe’s Director of Country Health Systems and Policies. “Health-care workers are the backbone of health-care systems, and their dedication and hard work must be recognized and supported now. This will pay rich dividends in individual and collective health and well-being, both for health-care workers and those they serve, and better prepare countries and our Region as a whole to handle the health emergencies we know lie ahead, as well as strengthen health systems to provide essential, everyday services.” 

Source : WHO

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Indian health authorities have canceled the license of a pharmaceutical firm that manufactured cough syrup linked to the deaths of at least 19 children in Uzbekistan last year.

The action comes just days after three employees of Marion Biotech, located in Noida in northern Uttar Pradesh state, were arrested by police following the country’s concerned authorities launched an investigation in December after the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan reported children’s deaths as a result of side effects from the Indian firm’s cough syrup.

“Marion Biotech’s license has been revoked. The facility cannot now manufacture drugs,” Vaibhav Babbar, an official with Uttar Pradesh’s drug authorities, told Anadolu.

The state’s drug authorities had recently filed a complaint with the police after samples of the company collected during an inspection were found to be “substandard.”

The Uzbek Health Ministry in December reported that 19 children with acute respiratory disease died after taking Doc-1 Max syrup. The ministry also said Dok-1 Max tablets and syrups have been withdrawn from sale nationwide, urging parents to purchase medicines only with a prescription.

In a January medical alert, the World Health Organization (WHO) also advised against using two cough syrups manufactured by Marion Biotech.

While Indian Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya immediately said all manufacturing activities of Marion Biotech at the Noida plant have been stopped, the cough syrup maker’s license was not canceled.

Earlier this month, police arrested three employees of the firm and said they were “arrested for causing serious harm to the health of human life by manufacturing and selling spurious medicines.”

The incident in Uzbekistan followed a similar one in Gambia in October last year when the WHO issued an alert for four contaminated medicines linked to acute kidney injuries and 66 child deaths. The medicines were cough and cold syrups manufactured by Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited in India.

The Indian Health Ministry, however, informed the parliament that “control samples” of the drugs from the manufacturing unit were drawn and sent for testing and analysis. “As per the report of the government analyst, the samples have been declared to be of standard quality,” it said.​​​​​​​

Source : AA

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a warning against the use of two India-made cough syrups linked to the deaths of at least 20 children in Uzbekistan.

The UN agency said that the two products – AMBRONOL and DOK-1 Max – made by the Indian manufacturer Marion Biotech were “substandard” and failed to meet quality standards.

he alert was released after at least 20 children died in Uzbekistan last month after consuming a cough syrup under the brand name Doc-1 Max.

In response, India’s health ministry suspended production at the company and Uzbekistan banned the import and sale of Doc-1 Max. India has also launched an investigation into the Uzbekistan deaths.

WHO also said that laboratory analysis of AMBRONOL syrup and DOK-1 Max syrup samples “found both products contained unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and /or ethylene glycol as contaminants” which are toxic to humans, especially to children and may result in death.

Marion Biotech officials could not be reached immediately for comment.

In October, WHO released another warning about another India-based drug manufacturer, Maiden Pharmaceuticals, after its cough syrups may be tied to 66 deaths in The Gambia, mostly children.

Lab analysis also confirmed “unacceptable” amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, according to the WHO.

India launched a probe into Maiden Pharmaceuticals but later said the investigation had found the suspect drugs were of “standard quality”.

Similarly, the Indonesian government banned all syrup and liquid medicine prescription and over-the-counter sales following the deaths of more than 100 children in the country from acute kidney injury (AKI) this year, linked to harmful substances in medicinal syrups.

Indonesian health authorities said that they were investigating an unexplained rise since January 2022 in the number of children’s deaths from AKI.

Source: Al Jazeera

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