Via Prensa Latina: Informan de investigación de la bacteria KPC en Panamá. [Investigative report on KPC bacteria in Panama] Excerpt, with my translation:
El Ministerio Público panameño elaboró un voluminoso informe de dos mil páginas sobre la bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemasa (KPC) resistente instalada en el complejo Hospitalario de la Caja del Seguro Social (CSS),se conoció hoy.
The Panamanian Public Ministry, it was learned today, has created a voluminous report of 2,000 pages on the resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carabenemase bacteria in the Social Security Bureau hospital complex.
La televisión local adelantó que hasta la fecha se han hecho 28 autopsias y 30 reconocimientos de cadáveres, según el reporte, dividido en cuatro tomos de unas dos mil hojas y aproximadamente 75 anexos.
Local TV said that to date 28 autopsies have been performed and 30 corpses have been examined, according to the report, which is in four volumes with a total of some 2,000 pages and approximately 75 annexes.
Añadió que la investigación está relacionada con el delito "contra la vida y la integridad personal", y comenzó el pasado 28 de julio, tras conocerse el brote de la bacteria en el Complejo Hospitalario Arnulfo Arias Madrid de CSS.
The TV report added that the investigation is related to the threat "against life and personal integrity," and commenced July 28, after the outbreak was identified in the Social Security Bureau's Arnulfo Arias Madrid Hospital Complex.
The story goes on to say that patients with mental illness in David, Chiriquí, have been moved from one hospital to another because of a KPC outbreak.
