{"id":199679,"date":"2025-06-20T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199679\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:59:14","slug":"metal-pin-detected-in-tablet-given-by-health-centre-to-eight-year-old-boy-kerala-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199679\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal pin detected in tablet given by health centre to eight-year-old boy | Kerala Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metal pin detected in tablet given by health centre to eight-year-old boy | Kerala Stories | Onmanorama<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__author-name\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Our Correspondent\">Our Correspondent<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__published-date\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished: June 19 , 2025 12:10 PM IST<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__read-time\">1 minute Read<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mannarkkad-metal-paracetamol.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" alt=\"mannarkkad-metal-paracetamol\" title=\"mannarkkad-metal-paracetamol\"\/>          <\/p>\n<p>\t    \tMetal pin detected in tablet given by heath centre. Photo: Special arrangement<\/p>\n<p>Mannarkkad (Palakkad): In a shocking incident, a metal piece was found inside a paracetamol tablet distributed from a community health centre (CHC) under the Mannarkkad municipality in Palakkad.<\/p>\n<p>The tablet was prescribed for Ahmed Rizwan, the eight-year-old son of Kallivalppil Haseef, by a doctor at Narangapatta CHC. The doctor had instructed Haseef to give half a tablet to Rizwan. After collecting the medicine from the CHC, Rizwan\u2019s parents broke the tablet to give him the half found a metal piece inside.<\/p>\n<p>Haseef said that had the tablet not been broken, his son would have swallowed the metal piece.<\/p>\n<p>Chairperson of the Mannarkkad municipality C Muhammed Basheer said that the local body had purchased the medicine through the state government undertaking KMSCL (Kerala Medical Services Corporation Limited). \u201cWe will file a complaint regarding this incident with the Health Minister,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>67pnrbnf0e21rr9phsubveq6vh-list onmanorama-topic-general-topics-39-tablet onmanorama-topic-general-topics-78-kerala-stories onmanorama-topic-general-topics-26-medicines onmanorama-topic-destination-7-palakkad 2ifgjfbbqnnj8bo2i7u21q050l uqongvkmofn9hmeo7acoj7kp4-list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metal pin detected in tablet given by health centre to eight-year-old boy | Kerala Stories | Onmanorama &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[80804,105,80803,80805,80802,4326,80801,80806,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-chc-medicine-safety","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-kerala-medicine-contamination","11":"tag-kmscl-medicine-complaint","12":"tag-mannarkkad-paracetamol-issue","13":"tag-medication","14":"tag-metal-in-tablet","15":"tag-paracetamol-tablet-metal-piece","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}