In the US, a number of inmates of a detention centre have engaged in legal action over allegedly receiving horse deworming drug Ivermectin, while infected with Covid-19, British public broadcaster BBC reports.
The legal action launched earlier in January is against the Washington County Detention Centre in the US state of Arkansas. On behalf of a group of the centre’s inmates, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas filed a federal lawsuit against the detention centre, the Sheriff of Washington County and Dr. Robert Karas.
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In the lawsuit, the inmates noted that after contracting Covid-19 they were given a «cocktail of drugs» they were told contained vitamins, antibiotics and steroids. According to the document, they had been administered Ivermectin without previous, informed consent.
The defendants in the lawsuit have not yet commented on the lawsuit. However, in a letter sent by Dr Karas’ lawyer to investigators in September 2021, the doctor denied that inmates were coerced or misled into taking the drug, BBC reports quoting Associated Press news agency.
US inmates take detention centre to court over Covid-19 treatment with horse drug
