Argentine coronavirus patient Oscar García Rúa (93) died on Monday after receiving chlorine dioxide, a bleach, intravenously. His family successfully sued the clinic and demanded that they administer the disinfectant after a doctor suggested it.
García had been very ill with the Chinese coronavirus before using chlorine dioxide. A lawyer for his family said on Tuesday that they did not believe he died from his coronavirus infection or from exposure to chlorine dioxide, but from a bacterial infection, and that they would sue the clinic, Sanatorio Otamendi y Miroli SA, again.
The court ruling sets the precedent that judges – who usually have legal training but not medical – can intervene to force health workers to apply treatments they disagree with. The federal court hearing the case rejected the clinic’s appeal of the ruling.
Chlorine dioxide is a bleach commonly used to clean or disinfect items, but it has emerged as a fraudulent and dangerous ‘miracle cure’ for coronavirus, which is spread by dubious sources around the world. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has repeatedly warned Americans that chlorine dioxide intake poses ‘significant risks’ to the health of all who do so, regardless of their coronavirus status.
According to the Argentine newspaper La Nación, García’s wife was also seriously ill in the same clinic as the Chinese coronavirus, and doctors recommended the use of chlorine dioxide along with inhalable ibuprofen, a painkiller and anti-inflammatory drug. While the doctor in question recommended the experimental treatment, the clinic did not approve it, and Argentina’s public health authorities do not allow the use of the bleach. The woman passed away on January 6.
A day later, García’s family sued the clinic in court to demand that their father receive the chlorine dioxide as soon as possible to prevent him from dying as well. Judge Javier Pico Terrero ruled in favor of the family and ordered the clinic to allow the treatment. While the clinic appealed, the court upheld its original ruling, noting that traditional treatments against Chinese coronavirus did not help the patient improve.
According to the clinic, García died within 24 hours of receiving the chlorine chemical intravenously, and he impaired his breathing ability.
Martín Sarubbi, the family’s doctor, declared according to the Argentine newspaper on Tuesday Clarín, that the family does not believe that García died of a Chinese coronavirus infection, but of medical negligence and that they would further sue the clinic for ‘culpable homicide’.
‘The doctor who treated him suggested that chlorine dioxide and the inhalable ibuprofen and Otamendi were denied the treatment. Before that we presented a cause [to the court] and the court ruled on it, “Sarubbi said in an interview. ‘The clinic continued to dilute the treatment. The reality is that [chlorine] dioxide is not prohibited. [Health authorities] discourage it, but they do not forbid it. The man died due to an infection contracted in the hospital and due to the delay in treatment. ‘
The lawyer accuses the clinic of denying the treatment “for economic reasons that have nothing to do with the effectiveness of the treatment.” He also claims that García improved after the application of the bleach.
Clarín quoted a medical expert, Professor Carlos Damin, as declaring that chlorine dioxide is a bleach … it has never been used as a treatment. ‘
‘There is no scientific evidence to suggest that it works as a medicine. It is clearly a toxic substance and can be harmful to one’s health, ‘Damin noted. ‘It is not used in any country in the world except [socialist] Bolivia, which recently approved its use. ”
Chlorine dioxide is commonly used as a bleach and in small amounts disinfected water at treatment plants, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic has worsened, dubious websites have sprung up worldwide selling ‘miracle cures’ for coronavirus, which largely consists of chlorine dioxide, a phenomenon that the FDA has repeatedly condemned.
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to a seller marketing fraudulent and dangerous chlorine dioxide products known as ‘Miracle Mineral Solution’ for the prevention and treatment of ‘Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019’ (COVID-19),” said the FDA. announced in April, citing the Chinese coronavirus. The FDA has warned that those who consume the products “drink bleach” and that the FDA is “not aware of scientific evidence supporting its safety or efficacy, and that it poses significant risks to the patient’s health.”
Last month, an American man in Massachusetts pleaded guilty to charges of ‘distributing and selling an unregistered pesticide’ after he was caught selling necklaces containing chlorine dioxide, allegedly as a medicine for Chinese coronavirus.
‘At the height of a raging pandemic that kills thousands of people every day, this accused tried to take advantage of believing that a lanyard was covered with pesticide against viruses such as COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus], “U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling said of the man identified by local media as Jiule Lin. “It was dangerous, opportunistic fraud.”
On the press, there was no evidence of any police action against the doctor who suggested injecting bleach into García’s veins in Argentina.
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