Mexican Anaesthesiologist arrested, blamed for 35 meningitis deaths
Doctor Arrested
Mexico City: Mexican police detained a medical doctor accused of using infected medicines that may have caused a mysterious meningitis outbreak in northern Durango state after the disease killed at least 35 women in recent months.
Another 79 people have been hospitalized with signs of infection.
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Police arrested the doctor who specializes in anesthesiology early on Tuesday morning on charges of illegal practices including the re-use of medications at the private hospitals where he worked. The doctor’s full name was not disclosed.
Meningitis is typically associated with painful inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, often caused by a virus or in some cases bacteria or a fungal infection.
The affected patients in Durango were likely infected by fungal meningitis while having procedures in the same hospitals where the doctor worked, according to Durango state prosecutor Sonia Garza.
She told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday in the state capitol that the first procedures associated with the infected patients took place last August, and that many of them had been administered anesthesia for obstetric procedures.
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