China fake drug scandal claims 14th victim-Xinhua

Source: Reuters

BEIJING, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A batch of fake Chinese medicine claimed its 14th victim when a man died of kidney failure nearly two years after receiving a tainted injection, state media said.

The 37-year-old, surnamed Ren, was among dozens of patients at the Zhongshan University Number Three Hospital in Guangzhou, southern China, who were treated in April 2006 with a drug containing fake ingredients, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Armillarisni A, made by the Qiqihar No. 2 Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., based in the country's northeast, contained a cheap industrial syrup, diglycol, that attacked patients' kidneys, livers and nervous systems.

Ren died on Wednesday despite an earlier kidney and liver transplant, the report said.

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A reminder of how the people of China suffer from the corporate greed as much as the rest of us.