Jalisco probes alleged care at Tecalitlán crime recovery site

UDGTV reported that authorities are investigating whether doctors or other health professionals treated members of organized crime at a property in Tecalitlán, southern Jalisco. The report said the site was used as a recovery location for people wounded in criminal activity, while Jalisco prosecutors continue examining who provided medical attention. UDGTV quoted Security and Citizen Protection Secretary Omar García Harfuch as saying the property was described as a “narco hospital,” but functioned more specifically as a place where wounded people were taken to recover.

According to UDGTV, the discovery occurred during an operation in which authorities located eight people who had allegedly been deprived of their liberty and detained six people allegedly connected to their custody. Some of the rescued people reportedly had injuries requiring medical care, and investigators found indications that some had received specialized treatment. State and federal forces also located three camps in the area that authorities associated with the criminal group’s activities.

UDGTV emphasized that authorities have not confirmed that doctors participated in treating the wounded people. That question remains one of the investigation’s lines, alongside efforts to determine the function of each site and how the structure operated. The supplied report does not establish that the property was a hospital in the formal medical sense, does not identify any doctor as a suspect, and does not provide a final legal determination regarding the people detained or rescued.