Inside India’s cough syrup obsession

Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent

Reuters Govind Ram shows a picture, on his phone, of his daughter Surbhi Sharma, 3, who along with other children died due to kidney injury after consuming contaminated cough syrup in Jammu between December 2019 and January 2020, near a park in Ramnagar on the outskirts of Jammu, India, March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree FadnavisReuters

A father holds a photo of his child, who is one among at least 12 children under five years of age, whose deaths have allegedly been linked to a cough syrup in Jammu

It’s happening again.

In early September, a…

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