Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS) announced progress in its investigation into the deaths of newborns at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of General Hospital No. 1 in the city of Durango, located in northern Mexico. According to the agency, a team from its national headquarters held individual meetings with four of the five families who lost infants in the unit.
The sessions were led by Dr. Alva Santos Carrillo, IMSS’s director of medical services, along with Jorge Marengo, the institute’s national human rights chief. During these meetings, officials handed over the medical records the families had requested and walked them through the findings gathered so far in the investigation.
IMSS emphasized that it made informing the grieving families its top priority, stressing their right to learn the results before any other party receives that information. The institute said it has also reached out to the fifth family, reaffirming its willingness to begin talks and include them in the process whenever they are ready to proceed.
The case has drawn public concern given the vulnerability of newborns in intensive care and the seriousness of multiple deaths occurring in the same hospital unit. IMSS has not yet disclosed further medical or investigative details.
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