Profiles – Page 32

18May

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Medics, Moldova, Profiles

Igor Dorogoi, Surgeron

Igor Dorogoi - a General Surgeon at Balti Hospital, Balti, Moldova – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on May 18, 2020. Igor was 55 years old. Source: Facebook Please help us in adding details.

18May

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Raul Garcia Espinoza, Nurse

Raul Garcia Espinoza – a Nurse at Centro Medico La Raza, Mexico City, Mexico – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Raul was 53 years old. Raul was 53 years old. Please help us in adding details.

18May

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Neighbors, Profiles, Turkey

Seyfettin Karakaya, Hospital Staff

Seyfettin Karakaya – a Hospital Staff at Istinye Government Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Please help us in adding details.

18May

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Agustín Mercado Rivas, Surgeon

Agustín Mercado Rivas – a Surgeon at Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de Ixtapaluca, Ixtapaluca, State of Mexico, Mexico – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 18 May 2020. Source: Facebook Please help us in adding details.

Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari, writer and film producer

18May

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari, writer and film producer

Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari ‑ a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer/director, and a self-taught artist from Maharashtra, India – died on 17 May 2020 in Mumbai, having tested positive for COVID-19 the week before. Matkari was born on 17 November 1938 in Mumbai. After earning a degree in economics from Mumbai University in 1958, he worked at the Bank of India for the next twenty years. Since 1978, he devoted his time exclusively to writing & production/direction of movies and plays. He was married to artist Pratibha Matkari. Matkari's first work, the one-act play Wedi Manase, was presented in 1955 on All India Radio in Mumbai. His play Pahuni was presented the next year at another venue. Matkari worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines in the 1970s. He wrote ...

17May

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Mexico, Noteworthy, Profiles

Pilar Pellicer, actress

Pilar Pellicer ‑ a Mexican film actress ‑ died from COVID-19 on May 16, 2020,at the age of 82 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico At the 17th Ariel Awards, Pellicer won the Ariel Award for Best Actress for La Choca. She is a daughter of César Pellicer Sánchez, a lawyer by profession, and Pilar López de Llergo, both from Tabasco. At age 18, she studied at the Academy of Contemporary Dance, and was trained by Seki Sano. She later abandoned dance to study philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She also studied at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. She debuted as an actress in the movie El vendedor de muñecas in 1955.

17May

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, butler

Wilson Roosevelt Jerman ‑ an American butler who served 11 different U.S. presidents in the White House – died of Covid-19 on May 16, 2020. Jerman was born in Seaboard, North Carolina in 1929, the son of a farm worker. He dropped out of school at the age of 12 to work on a farm. In 1955, he moved to Washington, D.C. and worked as a caterer before being hired as a cleaner by the White House in 1957 during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jerman was promoted to butler under John F. Kennedy, and continued in that role until his retirement in 1993 during the Bill Clinton administration. He returned to the White House in 2003 in the George W. Bush administration. He worked as a maitre d' and elevator operator for Barack Obama before his final retirement in 2012....

17May

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Mexico, Neighbors, Profiles

Eucario López Jiménez, Porter

Eucario López Jiménez – a Porter/Transporter at IMSS Hospital de Traumatología y Ortopedia, Puebla, Mexico – passed away on 16 May 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Eucario was 52 years old. Eucario López Jiménez, a stretcher-bearer at the IMSS Traumatology and Orthopedics Hospital in Puebla, was in the front line of the battle against the Covid-19 virus; However, due to being infected, he was hospitalized. Source: La Jornada De Oriente Please help us in adding details.

16May

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Olga Savary, writer & poet

Olga Savary ‑ a Brazilian writer, poet, and literary critic – succumbed to Covid-19 on 15 May 2020. Savary's mother, Célia Nobre de Almeida, was born in Pará, and her father, Bruno, was a Russian engineer. She spent her childhood in Belém, Monte Alegre, Fortaleza, and Rio de Janeiro. Her parents separated in 1942 and Savary went to Rio de Janeiro to live with her uncle. Here, she discovered her love of writing, although her mother preferred for her a musical career. She hid her writings, and they were kept by a friend at the Brazilian Press Association. Savary studied at the Colégio Moderno in Belém. Afterwards, she returned to Rio de Janeiro and continued her career. She wrote several publications and was a member of PEN Inter...

16May

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Italy, Medics, Profiles

Gianfranco Conti, Family Medicine

Gianfranco Conti – a Family Medicine/General Practitioner at PoliclinicoSant'Orsola di Bologna, Bologna, Italy – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 15 May 2020. Gianfranco was 63 years old. Healthcare in Piacenza pays another very heavy tribute to the health emergency. The coronavirus also took away Dr. Gianfranco Conti , who has been a family doctor in Agazzano for over twenty years. Just the dedication to work has been fatal to the 63-year-old doctor. In fact, Dr. Conti fell ill in March, most likely after visiting a patient with the virus. Since Dr. Conti got sick, a long ordeal ended for him at the Policlinico Sant'Orsola in Bologna, where the news of his death came from. "Our community - says the mayor Mattia Cigalini ...