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A funeral in the
eastern Indian state
of Chhattisgarh for a
women who died
after undergoing
sterilization at a
government camp.
Anindito
Mukherjee/Reuters
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But in recent days, the investigation has focused on the two packets of
pills sent home with each patient after surgery, one containing
ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic, and the other containing the antiinflammatory and painkiller ibuprofen.
One clue pointing to the pills was another death and scores of
hospitalizations from separate sterilization clinics overseen by another
surgeon two days later. That surgeon, Dr. K.K. Sao, said there was a
third set of patients as well, people who did not undergo surgery, but
were given medicine from the same batches for other reasons. One such
patient who died on Thursday was a 75-year-old man, he said.
State officials in the district have confiscated shipments of ciprofloxacin
and ibuprofen.
Roopchand Siras, a barber from the village of Amsena whose wife died
on Monday after undergoing sterilization, said health officials had
ordered that the medicines should be seized, and came to his house to
collect the remaining pills. Another resident, Bedan Bai, said her
granddaughter began vomiting an hour after taking her first dose of
ciproflaxin and later died.
The Chhatisgarh state government said it had halted the distribution of
drugs made by two Indian pharmaceutical companies, Medisafe Spirit
and Medicare Spirit. Complaints were received against the two
companies for supplying substandard medicines, a statement posted
on Twitter by the state government said.
Associated Press
Suhasini Raj reported from New Delhi, and Ellen Barry from Amsena, India.
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