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PANAMA CITY, Panama — Panamanian investigators asked health authorities Saturday to track down patients whose names appeared on 6,000 bottles of medication contaminated with a chemical commonly found in antifreeze and brake fluid.
The bottles were handed over to the government two years ago when at least 116 people died after taking poisonous cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion and rash ointment made at a government laboratory. The medicines were contaminated with diethylene glycol.
Investigators gave the Health Ministry a report on the 6,000 bottles in the hopes of determining how the patients were affected and whether they still need treatment.
