However, how this fungus affected the patients is still being investigated, because in the first PCR tests carried out by the Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) it was not found in the anesthetic drugs that were suspected to be present. contaminated.
Currently, 29 infected people are hospitalized, seven of them in intensive care units.
Most meningitis infections have occurred in women (94.6%) and 88% of the cases have been associated with a history of gynecologic-obstetric surgical procedures.
In addition, of the confirmed cases, the health authorities have identified 1,801 people (1,611 women and 190 men) who underwent spinal anesthesia procedures in one of the four private hospitals allegedly responsible for the contamination.
Of that number, 1,646 are already in outpatient follow-up, according to the daily technical statement published by the federal Ministry of Health to follow up on the outbreak of meningitis in Durango.
“Medical care is being given in units of the State Ministry of Health, IMSS and ISSSTE. Beds are kept available for hospitalization on the floor and in intensive care in the medical units of the three institutions,” the agency details.
