Medics – Page 32

27Apr

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Medics, Mexico

Francisco Brito Barrera, Neurosurgeon

Francisco Brito Barrera – a Neurosurgeon at IMSS Hospital General Regional No. 17, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico – passed away on 26 April 2020, due to COVID-19. Francisco was 58 years old. Francisco Brito Barrera, 58 years old, cared for people hospitalized in the hospital, but not in the apartment assigned to treat suspected patients or who tested positive for the virus, the institution reported. Source: HC Please help us in adding details.

Valdirene Aparecida Ferreira dos Santos, Nursing technician

27Apr

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Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Valdirene Aparecida Ferreira dos Santos, Nursing technician

Valdirene Aparecida Ferreira dos Santos – a Nursing technician at Hospital Marcelino Champagnat, Curitiba, Brazil – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 27 April, 2020. Valdirene was 40 years old. She attended the ICU of Hospital Marcelino Champagnat and took care of a patient with Covid-19. Rita Franz, president of Apenf, says that Valdirene's death is overwhelming for the category. “Each number for us has a face, name, family. We are at the forefront in fighting a virus that we know little about ”, he reports. Source: Paranaportal Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Julio Herrera, Nurse

Julio Herrera – a Nurse, Chief of Service at IMSS Hospital General de Zona No. 15, Reynosa, Mexico – passed away on 26 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Source: HC Please help us in adding details.

Lorna Breen, Emergency Department Medical Director

27Apr

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Medics, United States

Lorna Breen, Emergency Department Medical Director

Lorna Breen – an Emergency Department Medical Director at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, New York City (suicide) – passed away on 26 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Lorna was 49 years old. Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview. Tyler Hawn, a spokesman for the Charlottesville Police Department, said in an email that officers on Sunday responded to a call seeking medical assistance. “The victim was taken to U.V.A. Hospital for treatment, but later succumbed to self-inflicted injuries,” Mr. Hawn said. Dr. Breen’s father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, said she had described devastating scenes of the toll the coronavirus took ...

27Apr

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Israel, Medics, Profiles

Suzanne “Suzy” Levi, Nurse

Suzanne "Suzy" Levi, 65, Nurse, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel – passed away on 26 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Suzy was 65 years old. Joint List party MK Ahmad Tibi, who is a medial doctor, tweeted his condolences to the family. “She gave to and helped others,” Tibi wrote. “May her memory be blessed.” Source: The Times Of Israel Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Jeffrey Escher, Physician

Jeffrey Escher – a Physician, Geriatrician in New York, Westchester County, New York – passed away on 26 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Jeffery was 72 years old. Source: The Scardale Inquirer Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Paulo Henrique Lima, Nursing Technician

Paulo Henrique Lima – a Nursing Technician at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Paulo was 40 years old. Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Spain

José Agapito Montero, Nurse

José Agapito Montero, a Nurse at Centro de Salud Puertollano 3 Carlos Mestre, Ciudad Real, Spain, died on April 26 due to COVID-19 at the age of 63. He was reportedly in the ICU of the Santa Bárbara hospital for several weeks. Source: Cadenaser Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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India, Medics, Profiles

Biplab Dasgupta, Assistant Director

Biplab Dasgupta – an Assistant Director of Health Services in Kolkata, India passed away on 26 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Dr. Biplab Kanti Dasgupta, a senior government doctor involved in the fight against COVID-19 died at a hospital in Kolkata. Dasgupta, 60, posted as Assistant Director Health Services (equipment and stores) was initially admitted to Beliaghata Infectious Diseases hospital and later shifted to a private hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata on April 18. Dasgupta succumbed to the disease. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled Doctor Dasgupta's demise. ''We have lost Dr. Biplab Kanti Dasgupta Assistant Director, Health Services, West Bengal in the early hours of today. He was Assistant Director of Health Se...

27Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Elma Cavalida, Maternity Assistant

Elma Cavalida – a Maternity Assistant at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. London, England – passed away on 26 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Elma was 49 years old. Her death comes amid suggestions that those from ethnic minority backgrounds should be moved away from the front line to non-patient facing roles, as UK data shows they are ‘disproportionately affected by Covid-19’. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in mid-February and told that her condition was ‘curable’, but she would have to go through at least a year-and-a-half of treatment. The maternity assistant decided to continue working at the hospital until her chemotherapy started in late-March, but took every precaution possible, even buying her own stash of PPE equipment. After her last day of work in late Marc...