巴西当局正在调查圣保罗一家私立医院发生的八名儿童死亡事件，此前悲痛的父母指控他们的孩子在该院感染并死于败血症。
Brazilian authorities are investigating the deaths of eight children at a private hospital in São Paulo after grieving parents alleged their kids contracted infections and died from sepsis.
圣保罗州公共安全厅周三表示，圣保罗民警已接到涉及萨尔瓦卢斯医院（Salvalus Hospital）儿童死亡的投诉，受害者年龄从新生儿到12岁不等。据报道，死亡病例始于1月，但直到本周才正式向当局报案。
The São Paulo Civil Police received complaints involving children who died at Salvalus Hospital, with victims ranging from newborns to 12-year-olds, the state’s Public Security Secretariat said Wednesday.
公共安全厅表示：“警方正在开展调查，包括询问医护人员和证人，并全面分析病历，以查明死亡原因。”
The deaths reportedly occurred beginning in January, but the cases were formally reported to authorities this week.
巴西报纸《Metropoles》周五报道称，该报已审查了今年在该医院死亡的16名儿童的死亡证明。
“The police are conducting investigations, including interviewing healthcare professionals and witnesses, and a full analysis of medical records, in order to clarify the causes of death,” the Public Security Secretariat said.
据《Metropoles》报道，其中一名儿童是爱丽丝·德·安德拉德斯（Alice de Andrades），她于4月3日去世，距离她一岁生日仅三天。
Brazilian newspaper Metropoles reported Friday that it had reviewed the death certificates of 16 children who died at the hospital this year.
她的母亲莱蒂西亚·费雷拉（Leticia Ferreira），29岁，对在线新闻媒体G1表示，爱丽丝被诊断患有丹迪-沃克综合征（Dandy-Walker syndrome），这是一种罕见的先天性脑部疾病，并于2025年11月被送入萨尔瓦卢斯医院，接受在胃部植入喂食管的手术。
One of the children was Alice de Andrades, who died April 3, three days after her first birthday, Metropoles reported.
费雷拉说，爱丽丝入院时状况良好，预计在重症监护室恢复约一周。但据她母亲称，手术后孩子出现了呼吸困难。费雷拉说，在一次拔除呼吸管的尝试中，胃部缝合线松脱，导致液体渗漏。爱丽丝被送入手术室，期间发生心脏骤停，医生发现她肺部积液。
Her mother, Leticia Ferreira, 29, told online news outlet G1 that Alice had been diagnosed with Dandy-Walker syndrome, a rare congenital brain condition, and was admitted to Salvalus in November 2025 for a procedure to insert a feeding tube into her stomach.
后来，医生发现爱丽丝患有室间隔缺损（一种先天性心脏病），她又接受了心脏手术。虽然她的病情有所好转，但随后遭受头部受伤，需要手术引流脑积液。
Ferreira said Alice was feeling well when she was admitted and was expected to spend about a week recovering in the intensive care unit. But the child developed breathing difficulties after the procedure, her mother said. During an attempt to remove her breathing tube, a stomach stitch came loose, causing fluid to leak, according to Ferreira. Alice was taken into surgery, where she suffered cardiac arrest and doctors found fluid buildup in her lungs.
2月，医生在她的脑部发现了KPC细菌。这种细菌能产生一种酶，使感染对抗生素产生高度耐药性。
Alice later underwent heart surgery after doctors discovered a ventricular septal defect, a congenital heart condition. Although her condition improved, she subsequently suffered a head injury requiring surgery to drain fluid from her brain.
据《Metropoles》报道，爱丽丝去世前一天遭遇了两次心脏骤停。她的死亡证明书列明的死因或促成病症包括：丹迪-沃克综合征、脑积水、急性呼吸衰竭、感染性脑室炎和肺源性脓毒症。
In February, doctors discovered KPC bacteria in her brain. The bacteria can produce an enzyme that makes infections highly resistant to antibiotics.
费雷拉表示，得知圣保罗当局终于开始调查萨尔瓦卢斯医院其他儿童的死亡案件，让她感到些许慰藉。
Alice suffered two cardiac arrests the day before she died. Her death certificate listed Dandy-Walker syndrome, hydrocephalus, acute respiratory failure, infectious ventriculitis and sepsis of pulmonary origin as causes or contributing conditions, Metropoles reported.
“我们现在只能抱着这种期待，希望为我们的孩子伸张正义，调查这些案件，了解到底发生了什么，”她说。“我只能等待，并希望正义能够得到伸张。”
Ferreira said she has found comfort knowing that São Paulo authorities are finally probing the other deaths of children at Salvalus Hospital.
隶属于Notre Dame Intermedic集团的Hapvida在一份声明中表示，萨尔瓦卢斯医院在2026年已治疗了1000多名儿童。
“We are now left with this expectation of wanting justice for our children, of investigating the cases, of understanding what really happened,” she said. “I can only wait and hope that justice will be done.”Hapvida, which is part of the Notre Dame Intermedic group, said in a statement that Salvalus Hospital has treated more than 1,000 children in 2026.
声明称：“迄今为止进行的评估显示病例临床病史各异，在已检查的病例中未发现共同的感染源头。”
“The assessments carried out so far indicate distinct clinical histories, with no common infectious origin identified among the cases examined,” it said.
代表30名在该医院失去孩子的母亲的律师爱德华达·戈麦斯告诉G1，医院将死亡归因于受害者自身的病情，这种做法并不坦诚。
Eduarda Gomes, an attorney representing 30 mothers whose children died at the hospital, told G1 that the hospital was not being forthcoming by linking the deaths to the victims’ conditions.
“我们希望所有这些都能得到调查，当局真正追查责任人，并追究医生和医院的责任，”她说。
“We hope that all of this will be investigated, that the authorities will truly seek out those responsible, and hold the doctors and the hospital accountable,” she said.