A COVID affected person has tried to sneak in ivermectin by hiding it in a stuffed animal that they introduced into the ICU at a hospital in Canada.

David Musyj, the CEO of the Windsor Regional Hospital, mentioned in an inner memo despatched to employees on Friday that the ivermectin was found after a hospital employees member observed "a slit within the stuffed animal," CBC Information reported.

The ivermectin was discovered "because the employees member was amassing the affected person's private belongings," in line with the memo. Musyj additionally urged the hospital employees to "be cognizant of affected person's belongings with COVID-19."

Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug that some well being consultants say might help deal with COVID-19. However, well being care officers in Canada and the U.S. have warned in opposition to it. Well being Canada beforehand mentioned that "there isn't a proof that ivermectin in both [the human or veterinary] formulation is protected or efficient when used for these functions," in line with CBC Information.

The Canadian Pharmacists Affiliation has additionally warned that ivermectin may make COVID sufferers extra sick, in line with the information outlet.

"Using this medicine for COVID is admittedly placing people who find themselves already in a troublesome state of affairs in an excellent worse state of affairs," mentioned Barry Energy of the Canadian Pharmacists Affiliation in 2021, in line with CBC Information.

"I might actually urge individuals to suppose twice earlier than making an attempt to entry this medicine that has been confirmed to do nothing within the case of COVID," Energy added.

In the meantime, the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Nationwide Institutes of Well being additionally warned that the drug is unauthorized to be used in COVID sufferers.

Regardless of the warnings in opposition to it some healthcare professionals have supported utilizing ivermectin as a therapy for COVID. In November, a physician sued a hospital in an effort to prescribe ivermectin as a therapy for COVID after it has "flatly banned" it.

Dr. Paul Marik sued Virginia's Sentara Healthcare and argued in his lawsuit that banning ivermectin violates the Proper to Attempt statute and sufferers' knowledgeable consent proper to decide on options to a proposed course of therapy.

With no court docket's intervention, Marik mentioned sufferers will "needlessly die" of COVID-19.

COVID Patient Tried to Sneak Ivermectin
A COVID affected person in Canada tried to sneak in ivermectin by hiding it in a stuffed animal that they introduced into the ICU within the hospital. Right here, a well being employee reveals a field containing a bottle of Ivermectin, a medication approved by the Nationwide Institute for Meals and Drug Surveillance (INVIMA) to deal with sufferers with delicate, asymptomatic or suspicious COVID-19, as a part of a research of the Middle for Paediatric Infectious Illnesses Research, in Cali, Colombia, on July 21, 2020.Picture by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP through Getty Photos

Ivermectin has been prescribed in some areas on the earth, despite the fact that some research mentioned there isn't a profit to it.

"Ivermectin is steadily prescribed in lots of European and Asian nations each for parasitic infections in addition to the therapy for COVID-19," mentioned Vanderbilt assistant professor of medication Dr. Parul Goyal beforehand. "Nonetheless, at the moment within the U.S., it isn't prescribed."

Newsweek contacted Windsor Regional Hospital for remark.