Argentina: six new hospitalized in Rosario after drug use

The authorities of Argentina They are investigating whether the hospitalization of six people in the city of Rosario is due to the consumption of adulterated cocaine that left 24 dead in Buenos Aires last week, reported the local Health portfolio.

Four people were hospitalized on Sunday afternoon in southern rosary beads “with sensory impairment and respiratory depression” and around midnight two other patients were added, all “with a history of substance use,” he said.

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Two of the patients are in serious condition and on respiratory assistance.

“Some suffered seizures and in the case of critical patients they were intubated. We cannot specify at the moment with what substance the poisoning occurred, we are waiting for justice to intervene, ”explained the doctor Silvia Marmiroli, Rosario’s Undersecretary of Health, to TN.

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It was about consumption “of various substances, according to what patients have expressed”, which includes “alcohol and psychoactive drugs”, the official specified.

Before decompensating, the patients had used drugs, their relatives told local media.

“My brother went with a friend to buy drugs in the Las Flores neighborhood (in the south of Rosario) and then he began to feel bad, he lost control and fell to the ground,” Gustavo told the Crónica TV channel.

Last week 24 people died from consuming adulterated cocaine. Twelve of them died in their homes, two on public roads and the rest in health centers.

In addition, more than 200 were treated in hospital guards and twenty are still hospitalized, according to the official balance.

The police are investigating whether the six cases in Rosario are related to the mass intoxication in Buenos Aires where, after several raids, more than 20,000 doses of drugs were confiscated and a dozen people were arrested on the northwestern outskirts of the Argentine capital.

Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, is located 300 km northwest of Buenos Aires and is the third most populous city in Argentina with 1.3 million inhabitants.

According to what the federal prosecutor specializing in drug trafficking told AFP, “the police of the province of Santa Fe do not control the territory, it is part of the crime and the business” which allowed the advancement of gang actions.

Since the 1970s, Argentina has been part of international drug trafficking routes and a place of consumption, although not of production, of illicit drugs, according to government reports.

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Source: Elcomercio

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