Kekti Bai (C), who underwent a sterilisation surgery at a government mass sterilisation camp, watches while other women sit inside a hospital at Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh November 15, 2014. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee
RAIPUR India (Reuters) - The company at the center of a probe into why more than a dozen women died after being sterilized in India has denied that the antibiotic tablets it manufactured were contaminated with a chemical compound commonly found in rat poison.
Preliminary tests of ciprocin tablets made by Mahawar Pharmaceuticals, a small firm based in Chhattisgarh state, were found to contain zinc phosphide, two senior officials in the state said on Saturday. Samples have been sent to Kolkata and Delhi to verify that they were contaminated.
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