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Ivano Garzena, Dentist
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Ivano Garzena, Dentist

Ivano Garzena – a Dentist in Turin, Italy – passed away on 23 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Ivano was 48 years old. Source: Fnomceo Please help us in adding details.
Dr. Jean-Marie Boegle, Obstetrician
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Dr. Jean-Marie Boegle, Obstetrician

Dr Jean-Marie Boegle, a gynocologist who worked in Mulhouse, died on March 22 from coronavirus. France 3 Television reported that Dr Boegle had gone to his holiday home near Dijon (Côte d’Or) in the Burgundy region of France two weeks ago, to get some rest. Tired, and suffering from other health issues, he decided to get tested for coronavirus. He tested negative the first time, however, a week later, he tested positive for Covid-19. He went in to a coma and died on Sunday. On March 23, several colleagues wrote messages showing their appreciation for Boegle. Gynecologist Bernard Servent, a retired gynecologist at the Diaconat clinic in Mulhouse, expressed his regret at losing his former colleague. “He was friendly, joyful, funny and very easy to like,” remembers Servent. Boegle ...
Tahsin Khrisat, General Practitioner
Italy, Profiles

Tahsin Khrisat, General Practitioner

Dr. Tahsin Khrisat, 66, of Brescia, Italy, died on March 22, 2020 of Covid-19. He was as an Emergency Room physician. The Palestinian from Jordan worked in Brescia, one of the worst-hit cities in the region of Lombardy. “He had lost his wife a few years ago, and suffered because of that,” Federica Maestri, Khrisat’s former colleague, told Al Jazeera. She said the pain of the epidemic, “instead of closing him in, opened him to a new form of sensibility and empathy towards others.” He was kind, compassionate, funny and, as an ER doctor, loved sharing stories about his childhood in Amman during rare breaks in long night shifts. He later opened his own private clinic. “Almost every day, Tahsin would send good morning or encouragement messages to his friends and patients, to remind them o...