Updated 5/5/2021 9:16 AM
A DuPage County judge has ordered Elmhurst Hospital to allow a 68-year-old woman fighting COVID-19 to be treated with a drug not approved for such use by the Food and Drug Administration.
Judge James Orel on Friday signed an emergency order directing the hospital to give ivermectin an anti-parasitic drug to Nurije Fype of Elmhurst, who is on a ventilator and in a coma. But doctors at the hospital don t want to comply.
On Monday, a visibly angry Orel raised his voice during a hearing on the case. My order was, Get out of the way and let the prescription be served, he said. That s it.
A DuPage County judge on Monday ordered Elmhurst Hospital to allow a comatose woman suffering from COVID-19 to receive a medication the Food and Drug Administration says could be unsafe.
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