developing countries with little or no regulatory oversight like in kenya where our correspondent melanie corrado. has been investigating it's been a year since 18 month old son passed away memories of a baby boy vivid so are the nightmares of losing him when he got sick son to a local chemist for help he was given an injection his skin color changed soon after in a public hospital he died in his mother's arms. but. one of the doctors pulled me aside and said your child has been injected with fake drugs fake drugs. they did blood tests which revealed that the drug. was fake. and. this is the. says she is just one of many here in the slum of mathematics who have been affected by counterfeit medicine her friend millicent is convinced her son was also treated with fake medicine as she calls it rather than helping him the drugs ended up paralyzing her once playful boy she says. from the moment he received injection. lou is still walking when his old body stopped working properly still today that's why he's this way with 2 women share their grief they say they don't only blame the counterfeit medicine