Overview

• Former Safe Productos Hospitalarios staffers identified as Claudia “N”, Citlalli “N” and Gloria “N” were detained on homicide charges tied to the case.
• Authorities link the fatalities to Klebsiella oxytoca infections traced to Total Parenteral Nutrition administered to 13 newborns in November 2024, seven of whom died.
• The FGJEM executed a December 20, 2024 search at the company’s Toluca site after being denied entry and collected samples that supported findings of grave lapses in sterile compounding.
• At least two additional employees have outstanding arrest orders, and the three detainees were placed under judicial control at the Santiaguito prison in Almoloya de Juárez.
• Infections were recorded at IMIEM’s gynecology and children’s hospitals, the IMSS-Bienestar Materno Perinatal “Mónica Pretelini Sáenz,” and Centro Médico Toluca, while probes continue into six other deaths and two survivors.