An education expert pointed out that the recent kindergarten drug revealed the lack of supervision on the practices of private kindergartens, The Beijing News reports.

Parents take children to receive physical examination at a hospital in Jilin City, northeast China's Jilin Province, March 16, 2014.

According to local police, a kindergarten in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, was suspected of illegally giving the prescription antiviral drug, moroxydine ABOB, to children, after three other kindergartens in northwest China's Shaanxi Province and northeast China's Jilin Province were found to administer the medicine to children as well.

These kindergartens use the medicine to prevent children from catching colds and suffering from other infectious diseases in order to improve their attendance.

However, children in these kindergartens complained of some physical discomfort, such as leg pain, nose bleeds, itchy skin and inflammation in the genital area, according to parents.

Professor Han Yinghong, Assistant Dean of the Educational Science Institute of Tianjin Normal University, suggested that, in order to avoid such scandals, related departments should strengthen the training and management of directors and teachers in private kindergartens, and create clear rules on the qualifications of health instructors at these kindergartens.

Right now, several staff-members of the kindergartens are under police investigation.

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