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Hyderabad, June 29 Hetero Group has donated 50,000 bottles of paediatric Oseltamivir oral suspension powder (Fluvir), to the Centre to help children affected by the H1N1 Influenza virus.

The consignment worth around Rs 2 crore was handed over to officials of the Union Ministry of Health. It is intended for children who cannot swallow the Oseltamivir capsule.

The company has already supplied 9 million doses of Oseltamivir to the Ministry.

Mr B.P.S. Reddy, Chairman and Managing Director, in a release said that the company was prepared to supply the paediatric version, as it was concerned with reports of the influenza virus affecting children.

Hetero is the only Indian company to have licensing rights from F. Hoffmann-La Roche to manufacture and supply the Oseltamivir in India as well as around 100 other countries. It has a capacity to manufacture 80 million doses and scale it up to 160 million in case of emergency, he added.

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