Overview
- Five-month-old Ruhi Minote was declared dead at a Chhindwara community health centre after her family administered a herbal cough syrup bought from a local shop without a prescription.
- District authorities sealed Kurethe Medical Store, seized remaining stock and collected samples for testing, while police registered an inquest and questioned shop staff.
- Officials said legal action will follow only after the postmortem and forensic analyses, with viscera sent to the Jabalpur Forensic Science Laboratory according to an official account.
- The new case follows an earlier tragedy in which about 24 children died after taking the allopathic cough syrup Coldrif that tests found contained toxic diethylene glycol, prompting arrests, bans and a WHO alert.
- A separate local report said another five-month-old died in Mauganj after being given cough syrup, with the shop sealed and an FIR filed, as police opened investigations.