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Health

Indonesia finds medicines with ingredients linked to fatal child kidney injury

A cough medication is poured in this picture illustration taken October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Illustration

Some medicinal syrups available in Indonesia contained ingredients linked to fatal acute kidney injury (AKI) in children, its health minister said on Thursday, as it investigates a spike in cases and 99 child deaths this year.

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin was also cited by media as saying some of those syrups were produced locally.

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