Indonesia court finds drugmakers at fault over toxic cough syrup, awards parents

FILE PHOTO: Desi Permatasari, 32, shows a bottle of Afi Farma syrup in her home in Bogor, West Java province, Indonesia, October 6, 2023. The medication, prescribed for Desi’s daughter Sheena Almaera Maryam, 5, in September 2022, was one of those later found to be contaminated with the toxin ethylene glycol (EG) in one of the largest episodes of such contamination on record. Afi Farma executives deny intentionally supplying drugs containing deadly ingredients. To match Special Report HEALTH-COUGHSYRUP/INDONESIA-SURVIVORS REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo

JAKARTA (Reuters) -An Indonesian court ordered two local companies to pay up to 60 million rupiah ($3,850) to each family whose children died of an acute kidney injury or were seriously injured after consuming toxic cough syrup.

More than 200 children in Indonesia died of the injury and about 120 more survived, some of whom lived with disabilities which led to financial hardships for their parents.