Overview
- Security footage shows anesthesiologist Florencia Amaya using a false prescription to withdraw fentanyl from Hospital Houssay in Vicente López, and she later admitted an addiction during questioning.
- The probe widened after the February 20 death of anesthesiologist Alejandro Zalazar from propofol and fentanyl, as lot tracing linked vials in his home to Hospital Italiano.
- Investigators detained Amaya and accused her of administration fraud, falsifying a document, and unlawful possession of controlled drugs after finding more hospital‑only medicines in her home.
- Doctors Hernán Boveri and Delfina “Fini” Lanusse remain processed for administration fraud with travel bans and large embargos, and both deny wrongdoing in recent statements to the court and press.
- Resident Chantal “Tati” Leclercq was imputed after telling the anesthesiology association she used hospital anesthetics outside work, and police searched homes in Tigre and Buenos Aires as device and drug‑trace tests proceed.