Overview
- The Cuerpo Médico Forense found the contaminated drug increased the risk of death in 38 of the 40 hospital cases it reviewed.
- Lab work cited in the case identified multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella variicola and Ralstonia mannitolilytica in the fentanyl ampoules.
- The finding revises an August report that had described a concausal role in fewer cases by reframing the analysis around mortality risk.
- Federal investigators in La Plata are examining more than a hundred suspected victims, with prosecutions targeting HLB Pharma, Laboratorios Ramallo and owner Ariel García Furfaro, and the report also supports potential charges over injuries to survivors.
- Defense attorneys say experts still did not establish a direct, sole causal nexus for any individual death.