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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