Day 721 — Five Newborns Die at IMSS Hospital in Durango; Sheinbaum Orders Investigation as Robledo Travels to Site

At her September 22, 2026 (Day 721, Tuesday) mañanera, President Sheinbaum confirmed that five newborns died between September 15 and 19 in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Hospital General de Zona No. 1 (IMSS) in Durango, and that IMSS Director General Zoé Robledo had traveled to the state to lead the investigation and stay in contact with the affected families — "se está haciendo una investigación para ver qué fue lo que lo provocó y estar en contacto con las familias." IMSS said an initial clinical and epidemiological probe identified a bacteria sensitive to antibiotics already available at the hospital, but stressed its presence alone does not explain the five deaths; the facility has since isolated cases, restricted new NICU admissions, carried out deep cleaning and disinfection, and run contact tracing and cultures that have so far come back negative. IMSS-Bienestar director Alejandro Svarch traveled separately to Veracruz the same day to address medical-staff protests over medicine and supply shortages. Elsewhere at the conference, Anticorruption and Good Governance Secretary Raquel Buenrostro reported 4,193 public servants sanctioned since the administration began (for offenses including falsified documents and sexual harassment) and 286 companies fined a combined 147.3 million pesos, plus pension-eligibility corrections ('pensiones doradas') expected to save roughly 2.5 billion pesos annually; the Security Cabinet said 2,654 people have been arrested for fuel theft since October 2024 with no Pemex personnel implicated; and Sheinbaum urged residents of Jalisco, Colima and Michoacán to stay alert to Hurricane Polo, which forecasters expected to track offshore along the Pacific coast without making direct landfall.