Overview
- Federal Police operations under the Ministry of Security’s recovery plan targeted facilities in Buenos Aires, Formosa, Córdoba and Santa Fe, removing ampoules from health providers’ inventories.
- Authorities link the contaminated product to 58 confirmed deaths, with 173 additional fatalities under judicial review in an active national investigation.
- A court-ordered forensic review of 40 cases found bacterial infections in 38 tied to adulterated anesthetic attributed to Laboratorios Ramallo SA and HLB Pharma, identifying Klebsiella and Ralstonia species.
- The case is led by Judge Ernesto Kreplak in La Plata, with 14 people processed and four detained, including businessman Ariel García Furfaro, as the court weighs criminal responsibility.
- Investigators mapped 187 pharmacies, clinics and sanatoriums in the distribution network, confirmed 40 received compromised lots, and documented large batches 31202 and 31244 with tens of thousands of units recovered from each.