Edward Hospital in Illinois Defies Court Order to Allow Patient to Receive Potentially Lifesaving Medicine
Mauck & Baker Attorneys Represents Daughter Who Wants Desperately Ill Father to Have Ivermectin
Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312.422.1333, [email protected]
(November 9, 2021 – Chicago) Over the November 6, 2021, weekend, administrators at Edward Hospital in Naperville, deliberately flouted a court order which mandated that they allow a doctor to administer Ivermectin to a desperately ill patient. Attorneys from Mauck & Baker are representing Dr. Man Kwan Ng, whose father is a patient at Edward Hospital. Ng is also represented by Parlato Law in New York which is handling Ivermectin litigation throughout the United States.
Dr. Ng’s father, Mr. Sun Ng, was visiting the United States from Hong Kong for his grandson’s first birthday and became ill with COVID-19 and was hospitalized on October 14. Ng’s condition has worsened dramatically and his daughter, Dr. Ng, would like him to receive Ivermectin. The drug is considered by many in the medical industry to be a non-traditional yet potentially effective treatment for COVID. The hospital would not administer the drug, despite Ng’s wishes, and refused to allow access by a physician who was willing to give her father the Ivermectin. Dr. Ng went to court, suing the hospital, and seeking a Temporary Restraining Order against the Edward-Elmhurst Health facility.
“This is about a daughter seeking to save her father’s life. The judge agreed that there is no good reason for the hospital to refuse to allow her to provide a lifesaving non-traditional drug when they have as good as declared him to be dying,” explained Kirstin Erickson, attorney at Mauck & Baker, LLC. “Dr. Ng has obtained a licensed physician to treat her father and administer the potentially lifesaving Ivermectin. There is no legal reason for Edward Hospital to refuse to allow this.”
Judge Paul Fullerton of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court heard the case on November 1, 2021, granted the Temporary Restraining Ordering, and ruled that the hospital allow the Ivermectin to be administered to Mr. Ng.
On Friday, November 5, 2021, Fullerton ordered Edward Hospital to stand back and allow Dr. Alan Bain to enter Edward Hospital, granting him emergency, temporary privileges for the sole purpose of administering Ivermectin to Mr. Ng. The judge’s ruling granted a preliminary injunction and instructed the hospital to allow Dr. Bain to go into the hospital and administer Ivermectin according to the prescription, once a day for 15 days.
Fullerton observed that an attorney for the hospital pointed out that what Dr. Ng is asking for is an extraordinary remedy. “And that's true,” Fullerton agreed, “They are asking for injunctive relief which is an extraordinary remedy. But I can't think of a more extraordinary situation than when we are talking about a man's life.”
Over the weekend, the hospital completely refused to allow Dr. Bain access to the patient. They claimed it was because Bain was not vaccinated and that their Chief Medical Officer was not at the hospital to “proctor” Bain’s administration of the drug. An Emergency Report was filed with the court first thing on Monday morning, November 8, recounting the weekend’s events. After brief argument from both parties, Judge Fullerton admonished Edward Hospital’s representatives and restated that he ordered them to let Dr. Bain in on Friday, and that the hospital must let Dr. Bain in.
On Monday, November 8, 2021, as ordered, Edward Hospital allowed Dr. Bain into the facility to administer a dose of Ivermectin to Mr. Ng. The hospital also filed a motion to stay, or stop the effect, of Judge Fullerton’s order that Dr. Bain be allowed to continue to do so for a total of 15 days. Fullerton denied that motion and again ordered Edward Hospital and its administrators to comply with the order to allow Dr. Bain access to the patient.
“Hopefully Judge Fullerton’s ruling will encourage hospitals to modify their COVID-protocols to incorporate more innovative drugs like Ivermectin so that more lives are saved,” added Erickson.
In May 2021, Elmhurst Hospital, Edward’s partner in Edward-Elmhurst Health was sued for not allowing a critical patient to receive Ivermectin. After a court order in that case, the hospital complied.
Read the November 5, 2021, Action Order issued by Judge Paul M. Fullerton of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court, in Man Kwan Ng v. Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare, here[https://www.scribd.com/document/538389544/Action-Order-Man-Kwan-Ng-v-Edward-Elmhurst-Healthcare-11-5-21].
Read the Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings in Man Kwan Ng v. Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare from November 5, 2021, in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court, here[https://www.scribd.com/document/538390559/Excerpt-from-Report-of-Proceedings-Man-Kwan-Ng-v-Edward-Elmhurst-Healthcare-11-5-21].
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