Health specialists have warned that so-called "vitamin drips" or intravenous wellness treatments lack scientific backing and proven therapeutic effects for general health or for treating fatigue, detox, or revitalization. Furthermore, their handling without strict sanitary measures can increase the risk of serious infections, adverse reactions, and systemic complications. Health authorities have called on the population to avoid undergoing such therapies, especially outside regulated clinical settings and without certified medical supervision, while the official investigation into this case that has alarmed Sonora and the rest of the country continues. The Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris), along with health authorities and the Attorney General's Office of the State of Sonora, is keeping the investigation open after a fatal outbreak related to the application of intravenous vitamin drips in Hermosillo, Sonora. To date, eight deaths have been confirmed among people who received these solutions, as well as three other cases with varying outcomes—one hospitalization and two medical discharges—and the closure of a private clinic where these treatments were performed. What is Cofepris investigating? According to federal health authorities, the main hypothesis being considered is that the solutions may have been contaminated with bacteria, which would have caused a severe infectious response (sepsis) in the affected patients. This preliminary conclusion is based on the finding of high levels of white blood cells and clotting phenomena in the clinical analyses of the victims, data that is usually associated with severe infections after receiving a foreign agent to the body. Federal Health Secretary David Kershenobich has highlighted that part of the material under investigation is already being analyzed at the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán to more precisely determine the origin of the contamination and the role played by other substances that accompanied the vitamins within the drips. Clinic closed and search for the responsible physician. The private clinic involved was closed by health authorities, and an arrest warrant has been issued for the presumably responsible physician, identified as Jesús Maximiano "N", who had a license to practice but remains at large while searches and efforts to capture him are underway. During the searches, prepared saline solutions, medications, documentation, and other evidence related to the practice of intravenous drips were found, which will be used to advance the investigation for the possible crime of homicide by medical responsibility and malpractice. Accounts from relatives and alarming symptoms. Relatives of the victims have described that those who died after receiving the treatment began with discomforts such as dizziness, vomiting, bleeding, failure of vital organs, and rapid decompensations.
