Salone News Hub

Reports coming from the Gambia suggest that 66 children have died.
The World Health Organization has linked the deaths to a contaminated cough syrup that had been manufactured in India.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the UN agency was Investigating the deaths.
The Indian government is also investigating the situation.
Salone News Hub gathered that the products (Promethazine Oral Solution,Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup,Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup) were manufactured by the New Delhi-based cough syrup manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceuticals and exported them only to the West African nation.
WHO has issued a global alert over the four cough syrus- warning the could be linked to acute kidney injuries and the children’s deaths in July, August and September.
Bereaved parents have told the BBC how their children stopped being able to pass urine after being given the syrups.As their condition worsened, efforts to save their lives were fruitless.
Gambian health officials and Red Cross workers are now going door-to-door,as well as to pharmacies and markets, searching for the syrups as well as other medicines.
More than 16,000 products have been located so far and have been taken away for destruction.
SALONE NEWS HUB would like the authorities in Sierra Leone to do similar search for the syrups as well as to raise awareness about the products.