The drug safety watchdog in northeast China's Heilongjiang province put a stop to the use of an herbal injection in the province on Sunday. This was after the suspected product had caused the death of one newborn baby and similar bad reactions of three other newborns since early October, reports the Northeast.cn.

Prior to the move, China's Ministry of Health already issued an urgent call the same day that all local hospitals around the country stop using the suspected fatal injection.

Yinzhihuang Injection, the name of the drug, which was supposed to help reduce fever and detoxicate human bodies, was manufactured by Shanxi Taihang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in north China's Shanxi province.

Reports say that a total of 260,000 bottles of Yinzhihuang Injections under the flawed batch 071001 had been sold to eight provinces and autonomous regions.

So far there are no immediate reports on how the suspected injection had caused the death and adverse reactions of children and what happened to these batch of fatal drugs.

(CRI October 20, 2008)