Liam, a boy just two years and three months old, died at the ISSSTE General Hospital after being admitted with a broken arm.

His parents, Omar and Blanca Nayeli, are denouncing alleged medical negligence and demanding justice, as the little boy suffered cardiac arrest and brain death hours after surgery.

The infant had been admitted to the hospital last Wednesday for treatment for a broken hand, the result of an accident at home while he was eating breakfast. According to his parents, the injury did not appear serious, and they expected their son to be discharged within a few hours or the next day.

However, after surgery that same Wednesday, the situation took a devastating turn. Hours after the surgery, the couple was informed that Liam had suffered a cardiac arrest, from which he never recovered.

The parents’ anguish deepened when they received news from a pediatric neurologist confirming the diagnosis of brain death, an irreversible condition.

“I never imagined this, that my son wouldn’t get out of here because he arrived healthy. He just arrived with a broken hand,” Blanca said.

The couple claims to be unaware of the cause of the cardiac arrest or the identity of the anesthesiologist present during the operation,

lamenting the lack of information and the lack of transparency in the care received at ISSSTE Zacatecas.

Omar, Liam’s father, said there has been a constant lack of communication from specialists and hospital management.

“We haven’t heard from anyone higher up than the neurologist or any of the specialists here, nor from the director.

We haven’t spoken yet. I even refused to sign some papers a while ago, and they started to get a little upset,” he said.

Given this situation, the family demands clarity and accountability for their son’s death.

For its part, the ISSSTE in Zacatecas has limited itself to issuing a statement offering support to the parents and expressing its willingness to collaborate in any investigations determined by the authorities.

However, the document omits key details about the medical procedure that preceded the child’s death, which keeps the family searching for answers.

Blanca Nayeli stated that they just want to know what happened, “for them to tell us why,” while the Zacatecas Prosecutor’s Office is already investigating the case to clarify whether there was medical negligence in Liam’s care.