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Pharmacy and Poisons Board Acting Registrar Dr Fred Siyoi. Uganda and Australia have also warned against batches of the medicine. [File, Standard]
Kenya has recalled questionable batches of an antibiotics that have sparked an outcry due to their severe side effects.
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has withdrawn some gentamicin injection used to treat life threatening bacterial infections such as Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) after some patients complained of severe headaches.
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