Overview

• ANLIS Malbrán and Supreme Court forensics teams are in a critical evidentiary phase examining patient records and lab findings linked to at least 54 deaths.
• Judge Ernesto Kreplak has ordered asset freezes on 31 entities and travel bans on 24 executives connected to the HLB Pharma and Ramallo supply chain.
• Only 64,003 of the 154,530 ampoules from contaminated lot 31202 have been recovered, leaving more than 90,000 vials unlocated across Argentina.
• Families of the victims have held silent marches in La Plata and Buenos Aires to demand accountability and formal charges against responsible parties.
• ANMAT’s May 11 nationwide suspension of the batch underscored prior Good Manufacturing Practices lapses at HLB Pharma and exposed systemic regulatory weaknesses.