Kreplak revealed that three outpatients returned to using adulterated cocaine

While the investigation continues with raids, arrests and expertise, there were again cases of consumption of adulterated cocaine in the last hours and, on those new patients, it was reported that some of them had been discharged at night for the same reason. Nicolás Kreplak, Minister of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires, officially announced the situation. “We have had three cases of people hospitalized with poisoning last night, who returned today because they consumed again,” the official said. In statements to TN, he reiterated the request to the community not to consume the drug acquired in the last 24 or 48 hours and assured that the place where the purchase was carried out “was disrupted and 20,000 doses were kidnapped”, with which “a catastrophe was avoided”.

Nicolás Kreplak, Minister of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires.

On the other hand, he supported the continuity of the alert after the cabinet meeting of Axel Kiccillof, assuring that it serves to “let the community know that he is consuming a substance that puts his life at risk in a few hours.” He also asked “not to consume such a dangerous substance because it puts health at risk.” When issuing the alert, we also ask the health services to be attentive to be able to make an accurate diagnosis and treatment with an antidote. They worked in coordination and we had no more deaths since last night,” he added in relation to the situation that cost the lives of 20 people. Away from consumption in general and focusing on the three people who returned to consume the same product, he added: “These are very complex situations and we must take the problematic use of substances very seriously. It’s very difficult. You don’t have to simplify, you have to approach them with a lot of work and care.”

For this reason, he stressed that “an emergency program is being carried out together with the Ministry of Development to accompany the interned people who in a few days will be discharged,” with the aim of doing so “with a treatment to be able to contain the situation of substance use and addiction.” We are also accompanying the relatives who lost someone,” Kreplak said, noting that the province of Buenos Aires “has a territorial prevention program because it is a sensitive issue.”

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