Thursday, June 4

Medics

Fayez Khalid Ayache, General Practitioner
Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom, United States

Fayez Khalid Ayache, General Practitioner

Fayez Khalid Ayache – a General Practitioner with North Clacton Medical Group, Clacton-on-Sea, England – passed away due to COVID-19 on April 8, 2020. Fayez was 77 years old. GP Fayez Khalid Ayache, 77, who worked part-time at the North Clacton Medical Group died of coronavirus on April 8, 2020. His family said he was admitted to hospital and tests came back positive for coronavirus on April 4, 2020. He died four days later. Dr Ed Garratt, Executive Lead for the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System, said: “Fayez Ayache was a much loved and very highly regarded GP who had made a massive contribution to the NHS since he arrived in the UK from Syria nearly half a century ago “Any death connected to this horrendous virus is a tragedy, bu...
Francesco Cortesi, Surgeon
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Francesco Cortesi, Surgeon

Francesco Cortesi –  a Specialist in General Surgery and Oncology in Rome Italy – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 9 April, 2020. Francesco was 59 years old. Source: Fnomceo Please help us in adding details.
Leilani Dayrit, Nurse
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Leilani Dayrit, Nurse

Leilani Dayrit – a Nurse in Rugby, England – passed away on 7 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Dayrit was 47 years old. Her daughter Mary Dayrit described her as 'selfless until the very end', putting others' wellbeing before her own Source: Mirror Please help us in adding details.
Roy Coleman, Emergency Medical Technician
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Roy Coleman, Emergency Medical Technician

Roy Coleman – an Emergency Medical Technician in Shreveport, Louisiana – passed away on 7 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Roy was 64 years old. “I extend my deepest condolences to the families of Roy Coleman and Vianna Thompson. Their avoidable and untimely deaths highlight the risks facing frontline health care providers and other mission-critical workers every day — and the scandalous lack of action to keep these workers safe,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in the statement. AFGE filed a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration this week, criticizing the VA for failing to protect staff. The union claimed the VA created an unsafe working environment by not providing enough personal protective equip...
Robert L. Carroll, vertebrate paleontologist
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Robert L. Carroll, vertebrate paleontologist

Robert "Bob" Lynn Carroll ‑ an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles – passed away on April 8, 2020, due to Covid-19.   Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm near Lansing, Michigan. He was introduced to paleontology by his father shortly after his fifth birthday, and by the time he was eight he had decided he wanted to be a vertebrate paleontologist. In that same year he received as a Christmas present the left femur of an Allosaurus, courtesy of Edwin H. Colbert, whom his father had told about his interest. In his teen years his parents took him on many fossil hunting trips to Wyoming and South Dakota. Allosaurus was discovered by Edwin Harris Colbert at the year 1942 i...
Aleyamma John, Registered Nurse
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Aleyamma John, Registered Nurse

Aleyamma John – a Registered Nurse at NYC Health+Hospitals/Queens Hospital Center, New York City – passed away on 7 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. John was 65 years old. She began her career at Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, before moving on to the NYC Health + Hospitals system in 2003. Source: NEW YORK STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION Please help us in adding details.
Rose Harrison
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Rose Harrison

Rose Harrison, 60, Guin, died on April 6 night at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Miss. She was an employee at the Marion Regional Nursing Home and had worked in healthcare for around 30 years. According to her daughter, Amanda Williams, Harrison tested positive for Covid-19 after a nursing home resident contracted the virus. Using social media updates, Williams notified family and friends that Harrison was hospitalized in Tupelo on April 3 and placed on a ventilator on April 4. The next day (April 5), testing showed she was positive for Covid-19. Williams said her mother began not feeling well around Wednesday, April 1. Williams said Harrison had a temperature of 99.8 for several days, but was told she was expected to work unless her temperature was 100.4 or higher. ...