Weak regulation causing deaths due to contaminated medicines, WHO says

Toxic Medicines Still Threaten Children’s Lives, Warns New Report

🌍A new joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has exposed a deadly global crisis: the continued circulation of contaminated medicines, which has claimed more than 1,300 lives over the past nine decades, many of them children in low- and middle-income countries. Titled “Contaminated

Weak regulation causing deaths due to contaminated medicines, WHO says

(Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday systemic weaknesses in the oversight of the global pharmaceutical supply chain have resulted in medicines formulated with poisonous chemicals claiming lives and compromising the health of patients, mainly children. In a report, jointly released with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the WHO said there have been more than 300 deaths in Africa, Asia and the Pacific since 2022 l…