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COVID Patient Given Ivermectin At Edward Improving: Report
An Edward Hospital patient who was given Ivermectin after a lawsuit is now breathing without assistance, attorneys said.
NAPERVILLE, IL — A COVID-19 patient at Edward Hospital who was given ivermectin after a lawsuit is now breathing without assistance, Daily Herald reports his attorneys have said. Lawyers for the hospital contend that Ng had been improving prior to the treatment.
In early November, Judge Paul Fullerton had ordered the hospital to allow Dr. Alan Bain, who is not vaccinated against coronavirus, to come to the hospital to provide ivermectin treatments to Sun Ng, 71, a resident of Hong Kong, who was hospitalized with coronavirus on Oct. 14.
Ng was placed on a ventilator four days later.
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Ng's daughter, Dr. Man Kwan Ng, sued Edward-Elmhurst Health after the hospital denied her request to allow her father to receive ivermectin, according to a news release from Dr. Ng's lawyers.
According to Daily Herald, lawyers for the family saidSun Ng was given ivermectin for five days. After the treatment, attorneys said Ng removed his breathing tube and was taken out of intensive care.
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Joseph Monahan, a lawyer who represents Edward Hospital, countered that Ng had shown improvement prior to being given ivermectin. "Monahan also said the hospital was unable to confirm the contents of the drug given because the doctor obtained it online from India," Daily Herald reports.
Lawyers for Ng and Edward Hospital did not immediately respond to Patch's request for more information and comment Wednesday afternoon.
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