Vision Times By Neil Campbell ｜ November 20, 2021
Canadian Hospital Allegedly Denies 7-Year-Old Boy Treatment for Broken Arm Over Medical Mask Exemption
Hospitals in Canada’s socialized medical system denied a 7-year-old boy treatment for a severely fractured humerus after the family declined a PCR test for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and were insistent that facilities respected his medical mask exemption, say the child’s family.
In October, Hailey, her husband, and their children were moving from Nova Scotia to Ontario. While en route on Oct. 4, the family took their son, Zander, to a dirt bike track in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Hailey said in a Nov. 16 interview with independent media outlet Rebel News that her kids do motocross as an activity and that Zander is “a very accomplished dirt biker.”
While at the track, Zander crashed going over a jump, breaking the top of his left humerus bone. The family took Zander to the city hospital in Fredericton for immediate care. Hailey described the original outcome as, “After being assessed, the orthopedic surgeon said ‘we’re going to sling it, and let gravity fix it’.”
“I definitely asked a lot of questions at that moment, because I was really shocked that he wasn’t going to receive surgery or have that shoulder reset,” said the boy’s mother.
According to Hailey, the surgeon simply said “that was the treatment plan.” When she pressed the hospital to perform surgery, the hospital told her that they were “less inclined” to do surgery on account of the family being in the midst of moving across the country.
After the first night when pain medication was not effective and Zander remained in obvious agony, the family took their son to the Halifax IWK Children’s Hospital for additional care. Hailey said the family was relieved when the surgeon at the second facility was prepared to sedate and perform surgery on Zander.
However, “About 20 minutes later, a nurse came in and told me that he had to undergo a PCR COVID test,” she said.
When the family queried the nurse for the reason, Hailey said she was told that the test was to protect hospital staff in the event Zander was COVID positive. Because the boy had no COVID symptoms and PCR nasal swabs are an invasive test, Hailey declined the procedure.
After refusing the test, Hailey said it was only five minutes before the surgeon returned to the family to say that “the prognosis has changed,” and that they would not be operating on the boy, instead once again sending him home in a sling.
More:
https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/11/20/canada-hospitals-deny-boy-treatment-broken-humerus-medical-mask-exemption.html
