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Indonesian court orders cash payments to toxic cough syrup families

Companies told to compensate families of the hundreds of children who were killed or badly injured by the medicine.

Al Jazeera · Aug 23, 2024

In Indonesia, nearly 200 children have died from contaminated syrup medicines. Others have been left with debilitating injuries

Since August, hundreds more Indonesian children have suffered Acute Kidney Injury after taking contaminated syrup medicines. How such high concentrations made it into children's cough syrups and liquid paracetamol is still unclear.

ABC News · Dec 21, 2022

Indonesian families sue drug regulator, govt after children die of kidney disease

More than a dozen parents are suing Indonesia's drug regulator and health ministry for allowing into the country medications linked to acute kidney injury that killed their children or damaged their organs, their lawyer told Reuters on Friday.

Reuters · Dec 2, 2022

Parents demand answers after 141 Indonesian children die of acute kidney injury linked to syrup medicines

The Indonesian government has banned the sale of syrup medicines suspected to have been contaminated, after more than 141 Indonesian children died from acute kidney injury. But some parents still have questions.

ABC News · Oct 27, 2022

Indonesia bans cough syrup ingredients linked to child deaths

JAKARTA: Indonesia has banned ingredients linked to the deaths of 70 children in The Gambia from cough syrups as it investigates acute kidney damage that has killed more than 20 children in Jakarta this year.

Bangkok Post · Oct 15, 2022

Indonesia bans cough syrup material linked to Gambia child deaths

Indonesia on Saturday banned ingredients linked to the deaths of 70 children in Gambia from cough syrups in the Southeast Asian country as it investigates acute kidney damage that has killed more than 20 children in the capital Jakarta this year.

Reuters · Oct 15, 2022

Indonesia in talks with African countries to export its homemade COVID shot

Indonesia is in talks with several African countries, including Nigeria, to export and donate its homemade COVID-19 vaccine, its developer said on Friday, after becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to approve a domestically developed COVID shot.

Reuters · Oct 7, 2022

Indonesia approves first home-grown Covid vaccine for emergency use

JAKARTA: Indonesia has approved its first domestically-produced Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use for people over 18, the chief of the country's food and drugs agency (BPOM) was quoted by news media as saying on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post · Sep 28, 2022