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The Argentine patient with COVID-19 whom a judge had authorized to receive chlorine dioxide, whose use is not authorized, died this Monday in the private clinic in Buenos Aires where he was hospitalized, reported the lawyer for the family of the late Martín Sarubbi.
Martín Sarubbi, the lawyer for the family of the patient who died at the Otamendi Sanatorium after being treated with chlorine dioxide provided some details of the patient’s condition and his small evolution after receiving the treatment. “We are certain that since this medical practice began, it has frankly improved,” he acknowledged.
However, he also pointed against the sanatorium by pointing out that “the medical procedure during the hospitalization would not have been entirely correct”, and announced that they are going to file a complaint for the purpose of carrying out an autopsy and sequestering the patient’s medical history . “What they inform us is that he would not have died from the coronavirus, but from a hospital infection,” he said in statements to radio La Red.
Judge Javier Pico had given rise to the request of José María Lorenzo, the patient’s stepson, for the compound to be supplied to him by pointing out that “the coverage of the indicated treatments” would not cause serious damage but would instead prevent “aggravation of living conditions “.
According to the court ruling, on January 7, a day after his mother also died with coronavirus, Lorenzo presented a precautionary measure, which was later appealed by the clinic, for the Otamendi Sanatorium to provide “urgently” treatment to her mother’s husband, Oscar García Rúa, a COVID-19 patient in a “serious” condition with “severe pulmonary compromise” and with hemoglobin saturation.
The neurosurgeon Dante Converti, a doctor outside the sanatorium where the man was hospitalized and a specialist in biological medicine, had expressed that the patient “is in a very serious state of health”, for which the “authorization was requested very urgently ” for him chlorine dioxide treatment, a notice that the judge defined as “categorical and decisive.”
“It is of urgent realization since it can improve the diagnosis and the consequent treatment to be adopted imminently or, where appropriate, save the life of the patient,” said Pico.
When granting the request and rejecting the appeal of the hospital center, the judge recalled Argentina’s adherence to international human rights treaties such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which recognizes the right of all people to enjoy the “highest possible level of physical and mental health”, and the duty of States parties to ensure its satisfaction.
“Even so, despite the existence of the injunction, the Otamendi Sanatorium continued to delay the treatment,” the lawyer remarked today, who announced that a complaint will be filed against the hospital for alleged “wrongful death.”
Dangerous for health
During the coronavirus pandemic the oral consumption of chlorine dioxide solutions – directly or obtained from sodium chlorite, also known as MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) – has been promoted through social networks and the web – for the treatment or prevention of coronavirus infection.
But both the World Health Organization (WHO) and health authorities in various countries warned of its health dangers.
WHO advised that there is no evidence that it is effective for medical use, not just for treat coronavirus but any other disease.
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