A Sydney hospital has denied that it has rejected a sixteen-year-old in need of a lung transplant over her COVID vaccination status after her father launched an appeal for help.
The family of Dazelle Duma has alleged that Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital and another unnamed major hospital are refusing to operate on her because she hasn’t had any COVID-19 injections, and this poses a health risk to other fully jabbed patients.
In a video message pleading for help from her father, Josh Peters, from New South Wales, explains that his daughter needs a transplant due to the side effects of chemotherapy and surgery. Duma was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 13 and has since been through chemotherapy, life support and dialysis, and a bone marrow transplant which her body rejected.
She was told she had six months to get three COVID-19 vaccinations and a booster which she has not done. Duma’s father has also noted that he is not against vaccination, as his daughter had received all her childhood vaccinations.
He said that after her bone marrow transplant, her parents had to revaccinate their daughter so she would be up to date and protected.
A spokesperson for St Vincent Hospital Sydney told The Epoch Times that Duma’s transplantation was rejected for a variety of reasons and was not purely based on her COVID-19 vaccination status.
“There are many criteria that we have to look at. One of those is vaccination status, but it’s not the only criteria,” the spokesperson said.
However, he couldn’t reveal the other reasons because of patient privacy.
“So in the case of Dazelle, our unit has made it clear that we need more information from her and her treating doctors in order to make an informed decision as to whether it’s appropriate for her to go on the organ donation on the transplant list,” he said.
“It’s not fair to do transplants on people that might not have a realistic recovery.”
Australian MP and Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Russell Broadbent, said the decision was “horrendous” and asked her medical advisers to remember they took an oath to ‘do no harm’.
“With the TGA database now showing more than 140,000 notifications of adverse events and excess deaths in Australia being 12 percent above the baseline average, it’s well past time we had an open discussion about the safety and effectiveness of these vaccines.”
“I know these past three years have been tough for so many medical and health practitioners. And I know many feel conflicted and wrestle with the issue of informed consent,” Broadbent said.
“Who can blame them with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) threatening to deregulate them if they deviate from the COVID script?”
Unvaccinated Veteran
The denial comes as transplant patients around the world are encountering similar issues, with a U.S. Army veteran in America also being denied a lung transplant because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19.Former tank commander for the U.S. military James Jooyandeh suffers from advanced stages of pulmonary fibrosis.
“Unfortunately, we are unable to offer lung transplant as a treatment option for you due to your unwillingness to receive recommended routine health maintenance, including your vaccinations, which is an absolute contraindication to lung transplantation at our centre,” wrote Jooyandeh’s primary care physician Dr. Samir Sultan, a transplant pulmonologist with the VA hospital in Wisconsin, and Dr. James Maloney, chief of surgical services at the Veterans Hospital.
Jooyandeh and wife Deborah told The Epoch Times they are both against the COVID-19 vaccine because fetal cell lines were used in the development and testing of the vaccine and because of the vaccine’s potential health risks.
“One of the side effects that was just released was interstitial lung disease, and that’s what we have,” Deborah Jooyandeh said.
“So why would he take a vaccine that causes what’s killing him.”
