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Children hospitalised after Butebo drug mix-up out of danger

📍 Kampala, Uganda, UG·🕐 4h ago·2 outlets

Kabwangasi, Uganda | URN | Experts investigating the administration of the wrong medication to 23 children during a health outreach in Butebo District have confirmed that all the children who were hospitalised with complications are now out of danger and are expected to be discharged. The children were mistakenly given carbamazepine, an anticonvulsant medication, …

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[Claude] Report 2 is a republication of the same Butebo drug mix-up story, with the same facts about the children being out of danger.

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