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Two-Year-Old Dies After Choking on Grape at Tucumán Childcare as Prosecutor Opens Investigation

Prosecutors are examining the center’s authorization status, with autopsy results pending.

Overview

  • The child choked while eating grapes at a maternal school operating as a summer camp on Berutti 800 in Yerba Buena around 10:15.
  • Teachers performed CPR and an ambulance took the boy to Hospital Municipal Ramón Carrillo, where resuscitation continued for 48 minutes.
  • Hospital director Flavia Mole said the child suffered cardiorespiratory arrest and was declared dead despite prolonged efforts.
  • Prosecutor María del Carmen Reuter ordered operations at the childcare center and the hospital, seizing documents and security camera footage.
  • The investigative team included Sylvina Ojeda, psychologist Silvia Morales, and ECAV and ECIF personnel, who are reconstructing the event and verifying the facility’s habilitation.