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All Chinese schoolchildren to be tested for drugs after kindergartens are caught giving them medication 'to improve attendance'

By Mark Duell
PUBLISHED: 08:01, 20 March 2014

With reader comments

• China's education ministry orders nationwide investigation into issue
• Follows protest by parents of kindergarteners who were given drugs
• Children at schools in Xi'an allegedly given moroxydine hydrochloride
• Police: Schools wanted to improve attendance rates and their incomes

Up to 170million children in China will undergo drug tests, after it was revealed hundreds of pupils were secretly being given antiviral medication by their schools. China's education ministry has ordered a nationwide investigation into the issue after a demonstration by parents of kindergarteners who were given the drugs. The probe comes a week after an angry protest by parents whose children were allegedly given moroxydine hydrochloride - a drug invented in the 1950s to halt the spread of flu - in Xi'an city. Some children suffered stomach pain, dizziness and other symptoms but authorities say it is unclear whether it was linked to the drug. Police in Xi'an said two kindergartens gave children the medication to improve attendance rates and boost their incomes.

Detectives said they have detained suspects and are determining how extensively the medication was used. A kindergarten in the city of Jilin also was found to be giving the drug to students. Authorities shut down a Yichang kindergarten after its president admitted giving pupils an over-the-counter anti-fever drug and vitamins to boost immunity and attendance, Xinhua News Agency said.

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[slimvictor]

Drugging children against their (and their parents') will is unforgivable.
Especially when the people drugging them are not doctors, and know little about medicine.
And even moreso when they are doing it for money! (the schools only get paid based on the number of students each day)
Fuck that. To jail with them, I would say.

 

[One Thousand Words]

The Chinese usually have a more efficient option than jail for such crimes.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Very horrible. Giving young kids antiviral medications for financial gain is despicable.