![]() ![]() ![]() “There was a way to help prevent George from catching this, it was supported by medical teams that are well respected in one of the best children’s hospitals in the world, and you just ignore it,” said Dempsey. George has a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy, making his fight with RSV even more difficult as his parents remain by his side.Īlong with his parents, who applied for the treatment, SickKids recommended George receive a special exemption from the ministry, one his doctor said likely would have prevented the young boy from serious illness. It’s a treatment George received until earlier this year when he aged-out to protect him against the virus, which is primarily available to high-risk children under two. “It’s kind of mind-boggling to me that this can still go ignored by the government for something that seems so fundamental given RSV right now,” said Dempsey. Initially placed on breathing tubes as his parents fight to get him a six-month antibody treatment, which Dempsey says costs $42,000. Lauren Dempsey’s son George is just weeks shy of his fourth birthday and has been in the ICU at SickKids in Toronto for more than three weeks fighting RSV. “Today was the first x-ray that we had where he didn’t have a collapsed lung in three and a half weeks,” said Lauren Dempsey. mother fights for her son to receive an antibody treatment for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, after being denied by the Ministry of Health. An online petition is gaining momentum as a Cookstown, Ont. ![]()
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