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Mathew “Joji” MK
8May By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Medics, Profiles

Mathew “Joji” MK

As Italy continues to witness a gradual surge in the number of Covid-19 deaths, a Malayali male nurse died in Milan with suspected symptoms of the disease. The cause of death is yet to be ascertained. The deceased was Mathew MK alias Joji, 57, who hailed from Kadamanchira near Changanassery. Joji had been working as a nurse in Milan for the past 20 years. Mathew died on Wednesday afternoon. “Joji had contacted his sister here on Tuesday night and said he was suffering from fever. However, by 3pm on Wednesday, we received a call informing us of his demise,” said M K Joseph, Mathew’s brother. Mathew’s younger son was in Milan for a few days in connection with his studies, and he informed his relatives about the death. Mathew had come to his house in Changanassery in August last year, ...
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Dan van Husen, actor
8May By Web TeamNo Comments
Germany, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Dan van Husen, actor

Dan van Husen ‑ a German actor – died at Ilminster, Somerset, England in May 2020 of Covid-19 at age 75. He started his career in the 1960s, playing in a number of spaghetti westerns (usually he was cast as the bad guy), and also performed in Italian and German films by renowned directors including Frederico Fellini and Werner Herzog and in German TV series. Starting in the 2000s he performed in Hollywood films, and in 2008 had a role in a Dutch World War 2 movie, Winter in Wartime. He died in 2020 of COVID-19. Dan van Husen was born in Gummersbach. He was first discovered by Italian producers while working as a club disc jockey in Spain and began working increasingly seriously as an actor in the late 60s. He appeared in twenty Italo Westerns in six or seven years and bef...
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Jeff Kurtzman, flight attendant
8May By Web TeamNo Comments
Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Jeff Kurtzman, flight attendant

Jeff Kurtzman, a Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant who participated in an illness-stricken training session in Honolulu in June, has died of complications from the coronavirus, reported Hawaii News Now. Jeff Kurtzman, a Los Angeles-based flight attendant who joined the company in 1986, passed away in the night of July 21, 2020, in California, according to Hawaiian Airlines CEO Peter Ingram. Ingram sent an email to Hawaiian Airlines employees on Wednesday, saying Kurtzman had ‘become well known to his In-Flight colleagues for his passion for discovering new places, people and cultures’ and was admired for his ‘terrific sense of humor and knack for easy conversation.' “He embodied the values of aloha and malama that we hold dear,” Ingram said...
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Nabeel Khair, General Practitioner
8May By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Medics, Profiles

Nabeel Khair, General Practitioner

Nabeel Khair, 62, a well-known Palestinian doctor, died in the Italian town of Cagliari on April 8 due to the Covid-19 disease caused by the Coronavirus. Nabeel was one of the first doctors to take his place at the frontline in the fight against the deadly disease. Early March, Khair was tested positive for the novel Coronavirus. The Palestinian doctor was well-known in the Palestine community because of his active work within the organization Ponti non Muri, which aims at creating a “bridge between Sardinia and Palestine through universal languages such as music, culture, and sports”. Thanks to the work of the organization, many Palestinian delegations, mostly of women athletes, came to Italy to participate in various sports events. Doctor Khair arrived in Tonara in February, “aft...
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Pooja Sharma, Pharmacist
8May By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Pooja Sharma, Pharmacist

Pharmacist Pooja Sharma, 33, died a day after her father ñ€“ both passing away from coronavirus. Ms Sharma, who worked at the Eastbourne District General Hospital in East Sussex, was admitted to intensive care three days before she died. Paying tribute to their friend, Mr Sharma’s loved ones said her laugh was “contagious” and that she gave her friends “nothing but love, support and a tummy ache with all the laughter.” The Telegraph
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Lorena DurĂĄn, Paramedic
8May By Web TeamNo Comments
Chile, Medics, Profiles

Lorena DurĂĄn, Paramedic

Lorena Durán – a Paramedic at Centro de salud de Lastarria, Temuco, Chile - passed away on, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Lorena wa 42 years old.  The Mayor of Gorbea, Guido Siegmund, mourned the death of the woman. "Lorena left us her smile forever, that personalized and friendly attention with which she received people at the Lastarria Health Center, her concern and self-denial at work," he said. Source: Elmostrader Please help us in adding details.
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Dr Raul Diaz Jara, Cardiologist
8May By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Philippines, Profiles

Dr Raul Diaz Jara, Cardiologist

Dr. Raul Jara, acknowledged as a pillar of cardiology in the Philippines, was also described by the Philippine Heart Association as a “father, teacher, mentor, poet, author, singer, colleague, friend.” He is remembered by patients as a soothing and calming healer who used music to heal the heart. In his younger days as an activist physician, he fought the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and risked his life by treating patients in the underground movement, running rings around the military by faking the names and records of the activists he treated. Later in life, he would remain steadfast and true to his oath, joining a group of doctors attending to an aging martial law figure who had been on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum. In a statement, Dr. Ling Jara-Salva, one of Dr. Jara...
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