Overview

• The La Plata federal court tasked Buenos Aires Province’s Environment Ministry with securing the Ramallo site, documenting it and removing waste after drone images showed large outdoor piles of discarded ampoules.
• Authorities said the dumps of broken or opened vials—some resembling HLB fentanyl units—were left at the facility despite prior raids and federal custody, prompting preservation orders and a site survey.
• The case file now includes 122 deceased patients across 13 centers while the court ratified 96 deaths under investigation, including two children, supported by genomic matches to Ralstonia mannitolilytica and Klebsiella pneumoniae NDM‑5 found in seized ampoules.
• Judge Ernesto Kreplak continues indagatorias of Ramallo staff, with production and quality-control employees summoned in the coming days after the earlier detentions of executives including Ariel García Furfaro.
• Ex‑employees described severe GMP lapses—extreme heat, shared protective gear, rodents, improper water use and pooled sterility tests—echoing Malbrán’s report on degraded processes that compromised product sterility.