Ciudad Juárez.- The State Public Security Secretariat (SSPE) ruled out that there was a new outbreak of tuberculosis among the men deprived of their liberty at Cereso 3 in Ciudad Juárez, after the death of Efraín BM last Friday, October 11, which the Prosecutor’s Office of Northern Zone District indicated that it was due to said illness.
“This (death) was not caused by the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Although the patient was positive for miliary tuberculosis (the cause of death indicated by the Prosecutor’s Office), he was being treated with an adequate response,” said Antonio Garfio, head of Information for the Social Communication area of the Secretariat.
The death was due to another cause not yet determined that will be known once the death certificate is issued, he added, but it is related to an intestinal obstruction unrelated to tuberculosis.
Efraín BM was sent to the General Hospital, to the emergency area, on October 10 because he began to experience vomiting and acute abdominal pain, which suggested probable occlusion. However, he was returned to the prison on October 11.
Immediately after his death he presented other signs that the intestinal obstruction had worsened. The death was reported at 12:50 in the afternoon and occurred in the medical area of the same prison facility.
The Prosecutor’s Office announced on Saturday that the cause of death was an intestinal infarction resulting from the tuberculosis he suffered.
Efraín BM, 35 years old, had been held in Cereso 3 since October 4, 2022.
According to El Diario’s journalistic coverage, the man who occurred was arrested in October 2022 at the intersection of Manuel J. Clouthier Avenue and Michoacán Street, in the Salvárcar neighborhood, after he allegedly committed an administrative offense that caused the municipal police will address it.
During the intervention, a preventive inspection was carried out and a plastic bag containing around 50 fentanyl pills was allegedly found among his belongings.
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