With Ivermectin in Hand, Wife Dies While Husband Begs Hospital to Administer

A New Jersey grandmother died from COVID-19 after hospital doctors refused to administer prescribed medication to her.

The hospital doctors refused to administer ivermectin, reportedly because it is not in their COVID-19 treatment protocol. It is not the first case of a hospital denying a dying patient a chance to use experimental or non-recommended treatments.

Colleen DeLuca, 62, succumbed to COVID-19 on Oct. 10 at the Sewell, New Jersey hospital before her husband, David, could get a court order.

Over the last year, Buffalo, New York attorney Ralph Lorigo has helped many families who want to try ivermectin by obtaining a court order to force hospitals to administer the drug. Unfortunately, his help is not always enough.

For example, Lorigo helped a New York family get a court order to allow their loved one to receive ivermectin from another hospital equally determined not to administer the treatment.

Rochester Regional Health, in upstate New York, refused to administer the drug to 75-year old Jeremy L. Carter, a Navy veteran sickened by COVID-19, even after a court ordered them to do so.

Carter’s daughter, Jill Alvarado, got her father’s doctor to write him a prescription for ivermectin but the hospital refused to administer it, even with a signed liability waiver. In October, a Monroe County judge ordered the hospital to administer ivermectin to the dying patient. That was on a Friday.

Rochester Regional Health still refused to give Carter the drug. Instead, they filed a Saturday appeal. A hearing was scheduled for the following Monday morning but Carter died that Sunday.

In the New Jersey case, DeLuca had Lorigo draw up papers for court, but Lorigo does not practice in New Jersey. Lorigo told DeLuca to find a New Jersey attorney to handle the case but DeLuca couldn’t find one willing to take the case.

“They kept telling me the magistrates of New Jersey will never let this go through,” DeLuca told The Epoch Times. “Now I’ve got to go through the next 25 years without her. My 3-year-old granddaughter kisses her photo at night.”