Argentina: More deaths from contaminated fentanyl may occur
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The Health Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, chaired by Pablo Yedlin (Union for the Homeland), today approved a unified opinion with 26 questions to the Executive to clarify the case of the contaminated fentanyl that already left at least 76 victims. The office, signed by legislators from all over the political arch, aims to determine responsibilities, control failures and measures adopted by the authorities. By opening the debate, Yedlin ap…
The last 232 doses of the more than 100,000 with bacteria that had not been used were also quarantined. The problem of medical records and the raiding of a clinic in Cordoba.
The number of deaths due to the use of contaminated clinical fentanyl continues to increase in Argentina. Official data, which come from a still ongoing judicial investigation, indicate that at least 76 people died. And that there may be more unidentified victims. Bacteria contamination reached about 154,000 ampoules of synthetic opioids, developed by the pharmaceutical company HLB Pharma Group and the Ramallo Laboratory, distributed in hospital…
The investigation into the contaminated fentanyl in Argentina, which caused 76 deaths, is progressing under Federal Court No. 3 of La Plata, in charge of Judge Ernesto Kreplak. READ ALSO: Argentina: University stoppage in the face of low salaries and possible veto to financing law In an interview with the press, the magistrate confirmed that the National Administration of Medications, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat) identified two contaminat…
Argentina: More deaths from contaminated fentanyl may occur
The National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology seized batches of the anesthetic and found that two of them were contaminated, explained the lawyer in a conversation with Radio con Vos, hence the possibility of new deaths. “One had a high circulation and was widely applied. The other one was not administered any dose because it had just been out on the street”, Kreplak indicated. The investigation, in charge of Federal Cour…
In the beginning, the topic was treated with subtlety in some Argentine media. But, over the weeks, it has become an unprecedented sanitary drama in the country of tango. The cases of death by administration of contaminated fentanyl in hospitals are already almost 70 and it is expected that there are even more to be discovered. One of them is that of a baby who struggles for his life after having been intoxicated in the Argentine province of Cór…
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