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Dr. Daniel Nagase criticized COVID protocols that insist Ivermectin does not work to help those with the virus.
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(LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian doctor gave a striking personal testimony of how he was removed from hospital duty in a small Alberta town because he used Ivermectin to treat three patients with severe COVID-19, two of whom responded well to the drug.
In an October 1 speech on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery at a rally in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg Code, Dr. Daniel Nagase said it “shocked” him at how his COVID patients were being treated in an Alberta hospital.
“Let me tell you what happened in Rimbey, Alberta, a small town a couple hours west of Red Deer. It shocked me,” said Nagase, who has been a doctor for more than 15 years and has worked in both British Columbia and more recently in Alberta in small communities since 2015.
Nagase said that while working at the Rimbey Hospital on September 11-12, the charge nurse informed him that three patients on the “COVID wing had deteriorated overnight.”
“All the patients were on oxygen and extremely short of breath, and the only medication these patients were on were steroids, a medication that will decrease inflammation but increase the chances of a bacterial infection by suppressing the immune system,” Nagase said.
“That’s right, the only medication the COVID patients at this hospital were on were immune suppressants. One woman who spoke to me said she felt like we just put her in a corner and we’re waiting for her to die. … I told her, I can’t speak for the usual doctors during the week, but it’s the weekend, and I’m on a shift, and I’ll do everything I can to help. I offered Ivermectin, she wanted to try it because she heard nothing but good things about it. All three of my COVID patients who had deteriorated from the night before wanted Ivermectin.”
It was at this point Nagase said he was not able to obtain any Ivermectin, as there was none available at Rimbey Hospital. Asked if the nearby Red Deer Hospital’s Central Pharmacy had any, Nagase said they “refused to send Ivermectin.”
“Red Deer’s central pharmacist said Ivermectin was useless for COVID. He even had the Pharmacy Director for All of Alberta contact me to tell me Ivermectin didn’t work,” said Nagase.
‘God bless that charge nurse’
It was at this point that Nagase said they checked the local pharmacies, which did not have any Ivermectin.
“And God bless that charge nurse, although both pharmacies in town did not have Ivermectin, one pharmacist who had been a pharmacist in Rimbey for 25 years said he would do everything he could to find me some, even if it took all day,” said Nagase.
“We didn’t have all day. My patients were sick. So I started everyone on the next best thing, Hydroxychloroquine which the hospital did have. I also started Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc.”
It was at this point Nagase said he also gave his patients inhalers, as well as the antibiotic Azithromycin, and by late afternoon the “town pharmacist finally found some Ivermectin.”
“He couldn’t get it from his usual chemical supply, because it was a Saturday. He had to get it from an agricultural supply. He checked to make sure that it was the exact same Ivermectin a pharmacist would give to a person, brought it back to his pharmacy, and checked it again,” said Nagase.
“He then called me with the good news. I handed Ivermectin to each of my three patients with their exact dose of according to their weight.”
Doctor forced to leave hospital after being ‘ratted’ out for using Ivermectin
Nagase said that it was only a day after giving his COVID patients Ivermectin that he was given the notice to leave the hospital.
“Within hours of my patients getting Ivermectin, I got a call from the Central Zone medical director in Alberta, Dr. Jennifer Bestard. She called me to tell me I was forbidden from giving Ivermectin to patients. I told her she’s never met my patients, she’s never examined them, she’s not their doctor, she has no right to be changing the care of my patients … without their permission,” said Nagase.
“She repeated, Ivermectin was forbidden from the hospital. Even if patients had their own Ivermectin, which I would have happily given over to a relative so the relative could hand it over to the patient. Patients would not be allowed to take their own Ivermectin. She said it was a violation of Alberta Health Services Policy to give Ivermectin for COVID.”
It was then Nagase said on the next day that Bestard called “the hospital and gave me 15 minutes’ notice that I would be relieved of my duties,” said Nagase.
“I told her that it was completely unreasonable. I had an emergency department full of patients who can’t be sorted out in 15 minutes. But nevertheless, an hour later, another doctor showed up to replace me. They didn’t even want me to check up on the patients I gave Ivermectin to.”
Alberta Health Services (AHS) banned Nagase from working in hospitals. However, he still is licensed to practice privately in both Alberta and his home province of British Columbia.
After getting Ivermectin, two of three patients were almost completely better
Nagase said that it was not even “24 hours after getting ivermectin” that two out of his three “patients were almost completely better.”
“They were out of bed walking around and all the crackles I heard in their lungs were gone. All it took was about 18 hours and one dose of Ivermectin,” said Nagase.
“The third patient was 95 years old. She stayed the same. She didn’t get any worse like she did from the night before.”
Nagase then said that he later found out the doctor who replaced him “stopped the antibiotics, stopped all the vitamins, and she even stopped my patients’ inhalers.”
“Never mind COVID. No doctor would do that for any patient with pneumonia unless they were. Well, I’ll let you think about that.”