7th kindergarten linked to drug scandal
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A KINDERGARTEN in central China’s Hubei Province has become the seventh to be implicated in a nationwide antiviral drugs scandal.
Local authorities ordered the closure of the Xingang Kindergarten in Yichang City after receiving reports that some of its 200 pupils were suffering from nausea, itchy skin and abdominal pains, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Parents complained that staff at the kindergarten had given their children the prescription medicine moroxydine ABOB. Officials from the school, however, said pupils had been given only vitamin C and banlangen, a traditional Chinese remedy for the common cold, both of which are sold over the counter.
All of the children at the school will be given a free health checkup, the report said.
Meanwhile, authorities in Jilin City, northeast China’s Jilin Province, said they have closed four kindergartens operated by the Fanglin Education Group after it was discovered staff had been dispensing antiviral medicines to pupils.
Three employees — Wang Lina, assistant chairman, and Zhang Xinyu and Guo Yuehui, president and assistant president of one of the four schools — have been detained pending the results of an investigation.
The schools were attended by 375 children, all of whom will be given a free health check.
The firm’s business license was suspended on Saturday and education officials are arranging for students to be transferred to other kindergartens.
The antiviral drugs scandal first emerged in two kindergartens in Xi’an. The schools, which had a combined intake of 1,455 pupils, were found to have been feeding drugs to children since 2008.
Almost 2,000 youngsters across the country have now been affected by the scandal.
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