Fake drugs kill more than 250,000 children a year, doctors warn

Printer ink, paint and arsenic found in some drugs sold to treat life-threatening illnesses

Doctors have called for an urgent international effort to combat a “pandemic of bad drugs” that is thought to kill hundreds of thousands of people globally every year.

A surge in counterfeit and poor quality medicines means that 250,000 children a year are thought to die after receiving shoddy or outright fake drugs intended to treat malaria and pneumonia alone, the doctors warned.

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