Profiles – Page 138

22Mar

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Israel, Medics, Philippines, Profiles

Dr. Israel Bactol, Cardiologist

Dr Israel Bactol, a promising 34-year-old Cardiology Fellow working at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC), lost his fight against Covid-19, on March 21. “I’ve been around many physicians. Everybody’s brilliant. But, every now and then, you come across a person who just separates himself from the crowd. That’s El,” Dr Tom-Louie Acosta told Rappler in an interview. Acosta, an internist, is Bactol’s close friend and co-trainee from his 3-year residency at Premiere Medical Center in Cabanatuan City. “You can’t help but gravitate towards him because he was such a beautiful person, on top of being a brilliant physician,” he added. Bactol’s memory is etched in the hearts of his family, friends, fellow physcians, hospital colleagues, and patients coming from underserved communities. Bactol...

22Mar

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France, Profiles

Dr. Jean-Jacques Razafindranazy

Dr. Jean-Jacques Razafindranazy, 67, a retired Emergency Ward physician at CompiÃ¨gne hospital in France, was the first doctor to die from Covid-19 on March 21, 2020. At the end of February, the 67 year-old retired doctor Razafindranazy, came back to the emergency ward of CompiÃ¨gne hospital, 84 kilometres north of Paris, to give his colleagues a hand. L’Oise department was the epicentre of the coronvirus outbreak in France. The first patient, a 60 year-old teacher, was first hospitalised there. The man, who suffered from respiratory problems, and tested positive for the coronavirus, later died after being transferrred to a hospital in Paris. According to France Info, Dr Razafindranazy was hospitalised himself on 4 March in Lille, where he tested positive for Covid-19. His h...

22Mar

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France, Profiles

Dr. Marguerite Derrida, Psychoanalyst

Dr. Marguerite Derrida, 87, a renowned Psychoanalyst and Translator, died from Covid19 infection in Paris, France, on March 21, 2020. Derrida, a Czech-born French psychoanalyst, had translated many psychoanalytic works into French. Derrida trained as a psychologist at the Paris Psychoanalytic Society, and translated many works by Melanie Klein. She trained in anthropology with AndrÃ© Leroi-Gourhan in the 1960s. The daughter of Gustave Aucouturier, Marguerite married Jacques Derrida on 9 June 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of their sons is writer Pierre AlfÃ©ri. She appeared in two documentary films where she talks about life with her husband in Ris-Orangis.

22Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Lorenzo Sanz, businessman

Lorenzo Sanz Mancebo –a Spanish businessman who was the president of Real Madrid between 1995 and 2000, and owner of Málaga CF – succumbed to Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. Born on 9 August 1943 in Madrid, Spain, Sanz played as a goalkeeper in his youth for several minor Madrilenian league teams, including Puerta Bonita. An astute businessman, he made his fortune in real estate and construction. Sanz was a director of Real Madrid from 1985 to 1995. He then became president of Real Madrid on 26 November 1995 after Ramón Mendoza was forced to resign due to the economic, social, and sporting problems of the club. Sanz tried to turn the club around by bringing in star players like Davor Šuker and Predrag Mijatović with his ...

22Mar

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High Profilers, Philippines, Profiles

Aileen Baviera, political scientist

Aileen San Pablo Baviera ‑ a Filipino political scientist and sinologist ‑ died of pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 at the San Lazaro Hospital, Manila. She contracted the disease on March 12, when she returned after participating in a security conference in Paris, France. She was one of two Filipino delegates - the other being Dr. Alan T. Ortiz - who were exposed to the disease at the conference and later succumbed to it. Baviera was the widow of Jorge Villegas Baviera, who died in 2018, and had three children. She was one of the leading China experts in her country. In October 1979, Baviera received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, cum laude at the University of the Philippines. As a student of modern Chinese history at th...

22Mar

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France, High Profilers, Profiles

Jacques Oudin, politician

Jacques Oudin, a French politician, succumbed to Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. He was 80 years old. He was member of the Senate of France from 1986 to 2004, representing the department of Vendée.

22Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

William Stern, businessman

William George Stern ‑ a businessman most notable as the owner of the British Stern Group of companies – died of Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. When the British Stern Group of companies collapsed in 1973, Stern became Britain's biggest bankrupt with debts of £118 million. The uninsured losses sustained by thousands of investors led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act. He died during the Covid-19 pandemic due to complications brought on by Covid-19. He was born Vilmos György Stern or Ze’ev HaKohen Stern in Budapest, the youngest of three children of Chaim Stern, who owned a textile factory supplying goods to the Hungarian government. When Hungary was invaded by Nazi Germany in March 1944, Stern along with hi...

21Mar

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Profiles

Hugo Díez Pérez, Neurologist

Dr. Hugo Díez Pérez, 69, a Neurologist from Paraguay, died from Covid-19 on March 20, 2020. He is credited with helping to establish the Neurology Department at Military Hospital of AsunciÃ³n. According to reports, Dr. Hugo Diez Perez was the first person to die of Covid-19 in Paraguay. Dr. Perez, 69, was being treated in intensive care for the past week before he died. For 22 years he practiced at Baptist Medical Center in Paraguay. He had also set up the Paraguay Neurosurgery Society.

21Mar

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Pakistan, Profiles

Dr. Usama Riaz, Physician

Dr. Usama Riaz is being hailed as a hero In Pakistan for courageously putting his life on the line to treat patients with Covid-19. Even though the 26-year-old doctor didn’t have adequate protective gear, he kept fighting for his patients until he eventually lost his life to the disease. He died on March 20. He’s a hero in Pakistan but the world should know his name. Riaz was part of a ten-person team screening pilgrims who recently returned to Pakistan from Iraq and Iran. He later treated these patients at isolation centers in Gilit, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. On March 20, after treating his patients, Riaz went to bed but couldn’t get up in the morning. He was rushed to a military hospital for a CT scan but the equipment didn’t work. He was put on a ventilator and died two da...

21Mar

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High Profilers, Italy, Profiles

Marino Quaresimin, politician

Marino Quaresimin ‑ was an Italian politician ‑ died of COVID-19 on 20 March 2020 in Vicenza, aged 82.. He was born in Vicenza, Italy. Quaresimin was Mayor of Vicenza from 1995 to 1998. During his political career, he was a member of the Italian People's Party, but later switched to The Daisy party. From 1999 to 2008, he was a member of the Vicenza city council.