In Mexico, at least 13 children under the age of 14 have died from possible infection with intravenous feeding packages. Doctors were urged not to use victory packages. About this Associated Press, writes UNN.
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The federal Department of Health has ordered doctors across the country not to use intravenous bags manufactured by Productos Hospitalarios SA de CV. The agency reported that the children died from a blood infection. The exact source of the infection is still being investigated. Of the 19 patients, 13 died, and six more patients are being treated in hospitals.
The outbreak of infection was caused by the multi-resistant bacterium Klebsiella oxytoca (Klebsiella oxytoca). They were first discovered in November in three public hospitals and one private one in the state of Mexico, on the outskirts of Mexico City.
According to the publication, this was the latest public blow to Mexico's shaky and underfunded health system. Last week, the director of the country's main national cardiology institute said the hospital had no money to purchase the necessary materials, calling the situation "critical.