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Suspect held as bogus drug kills 4
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-05-15 06:43
Police have detained a Jiangsu Province chemical company employee after
four people died and at least six others suffered serious kidney failure
from injections containing a substandard ingredient.
The relatives of an unidentified victim of the bogus drug react angrily
at the news that the drugs were fake and fatal to the patients. [cctv.com]
Wang Guiping allegedly sold the substance, propylene glycol, to Qiqihar
No. 2 Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, a Heilongjiang Province drugmaker now at the
center of a medicine scandal.
On Saturday night, police sealed up the Qiqihar factory after the State
Food and Drug Administration banned all its products. Jiangsu authorities
have sealed up the chemical at Wang's factory in Taixing.
Jiangsu's drug agency posted on its Website a warning for nationwide
drugmakers to stop using propylene glycol bought from Wang's company.
The four deaths occurred in southern China's Guangdong Province, where at
least six others were listed last night in serious condition, suffering
breathing difficulties and paralysis.
Jiangsu official were "well in control" of the substandard chemical,
according to Cao Yongwen, director of Qiqihar's Food and Drug
Administration.
The Qiqihar drugmaker mainly produces Armillarisin A, used to treat gall
bladder, liver and gastric disorders; metamizole sodium, a pain and fever
reliever; and calcium gluconate injections for bone growth and other uses.
The company has recalled 600 ampoules of the problem Armillarisin A it
had sold in Xi'an, capital of northwestern China's Shaanxi Province, Cao
said.
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