Overview

• Resolution 2426/2025, published in the Boletín Oficial and signed by Health Minister Mario Iván Lugones, appoints Morán and formalizes the removal of Gabriela Mantecón Fumado.
• The appointment is transitory for 180 working days starting August 21, with a competitive process to select a permanent director.
• Officials frame the move as a push to strengthen oversight and traceability for controlled medicines and to restore INAME’s control mechanisms.
• A judicial case and an internal administrative inquiry remain active, with 24 people accused and detentions that include HLB Pharma owner Ariel García Furfaro, his two brothers, his mother, and several technicians, after a March 26 technical warning was allegedly archived.
• Investigators have tied fentanyl lot 31202, manufactured on December 18, 2024, to a deadly outbreak, with local reports citing at least 96 fatalities.