Parents challenge govt report on drug-fed children
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PARENTS of children, who were given antiviral drugs by two preschools in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shanxi Province, claim the local government’s medical reports are false.
A report in March suggested that the privately owned Hongji Xincheng and Fengyun kindergartens have been giving prescription medicine moroxydine ABOB to children since 2008 to “prevent them from catching cold, boost resistance and improve their attendance” without notifying their parents.
Authorities acted on the report and shut down the two kindergartens and detained six people. The local government then arranged for free medical checkups for 1,455 kids.
On March 15, the government said only 65 children showed symptoms of sweating and poor appetite. But some of the parents took their children to other hospitals for examination, which showed different results, China Central Television reported yesterday.
Of the 500 reports collected by CCTV from parents, more than 300 revealed abnormalities. In one class at the Fengyun Kindergarten, 25 of the 30 children were diagnosed with elevated cardiac enzyme and hematuresis.
A parent, surnamed Zhu, said his five-year-old son was fed with the medicines since he entered the Hongji Xincheng Kindergarten in 2011, which led to hydronephrosis — literally water inside the kidney.
The government-assigned hospital’s report said the boy’s condition was light but two other public hospitals considered him severely ill, Zhu said.
CCTV also found six of the B-mode ultrasonic scanning reports, belonging to six children, were exactly the same — in time, data and results.
Local authorities in Lianhu and Yanta districts said they had taken the new results and submitted them to higher authorities and arranged for a re-examination.
After the scandal broke in March, several other kindergartens in Shaanxi, Jilin and Hubei provinces have been accused of giving moroxydine ABOB to children.
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