Kenya’s pharmaceutical regulator has recalled an oral medicine used to relieve pain and fever in children, citing urgent safety concerns.
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) said it had received multiple market complaints regarding the quality of several batches of the paracetamol oral solution called Tamedol.
The PPB ordered pharmacists to halt the sale of the branded drug and urged the public to return any stocks to the nearest health facility.
Manufactured by a Kenyan pharmaceutical company, it becomes the ninth in a growing list of medicines so far recalled by the regulator this year alone.
Meanwhile, the PPB has issued a warning about suspected substandard and falsified batches of Visipaque, a drug used to help diagnose disorders of internal organs.
The regulator says the affected product batches, which were manufactured in China and Ireland, had entered the country’s market illegally.