00:00The health crisis in Ecuador's prison system intensifies after at least six inmates have died
00:05from tuberculosis in the Littoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the country's largest prison.
00:11According to reports from the National Police, the deceased were between 22 and 45 years old
00:17and their bodies showed no signs of violence, pointing to health complications as the cause of death.
00:23These new deaths add to a series of them that were attributed to a presumed tuberculosis epidemic
00:29within the prison. Nationwide, 1,131 cases of tuberculosis have been reported in the prison
00:37system, of which more than 500 are in the Littoral prison alone, confirming the focus of the epidemic
00:44in this prison.
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