ealth officials investigating the deaths of more than 13 women who died after attending government-run family planning camps in eastern India believe that they were killed by medicine contaminated with rat poison. All antibiotics bought from Mahawar Pharmaceuticals, a factory in the the eastern city of Raipur, the state capital, have now been withdrawn,the Press Trust of India reported. Quantities of zinc phosphide, a component of rat poison, was found at the factory, where antibiotics distributed at the two camps on Saturday and Monday were made earlier this week.
“We have seen some toxin reaction in some patients, not infection. Renal failure, falling blood pressure, in all cases issued with this drug. What they were given was not antibiotic but a toxin,” said Dr Ashutosh Tiwari, secretary of the local branch of the Indian Medical Association in Bilaspur, where the deaths have…
