The hospital’s doctors provided emergency treatment. Most of the babies have recovered and been discharged, the doctors said.

 

In the meantime, Thai Nguyen’s Health Departmenthas collected the empty containers of the antibiotics that the babies were injected.

 

The drugs will be sent for testing at central agencies. Unused ones of the same batch were withdrawn as well.

 

The department’s initial conclusion was that the purple tinge was not caused by the babies’ response to the antibiotics, which included sultacil, cephardin, and cephotaxim.

 

They were administered in accordance with instructions and technical procedures, it found.