Overview

• A mother reported black worm-like particles in an Azithromycin oral suspension given at Morar government hospital in Gwalior, prompting an immediate probe.
• Authorities sealed and recalled the hospital’s entire stock of 306 bottles, halted use of the batch, and sent samples to the state lab in Bhopal with another sample slated for the Central Drug Laboratory in Kolkata.
• Officials said preliminary checks, including a review by a team from Bhopal, found no visible contaminants in other bottles and no related illnesses have been reported.
• Gwalior’s district administration began batch-tracing after learning the supply came from a government store in Bhopal and warned of strict legal action if tests show substandard or harmful ingredients.
• The batch was identified as a generic product made by Zenith Drugs Ltd. of Indore, and the complaint follows a separate crisis in which the child death toll linked to adulterated Coldrif cough syrup has risen to 25 and triggered a WHO alert on three substandard syrups.