Profiles – Page 64

Daniele “Dani” Costa, Nursing Technician

28Apr

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Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Daniele “Dani” Costa, Nursing Technician

Daniele "Dani" Costa – a Nursing Technician at Serviço de AtendimentoMóvel de Urgência (Samu) and Unidade de Pronto-Atendimento (UPA), Rio de Janeiro and Nova Iguaçu in Baixada Fluminense, Brazil – passed away on 27 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Daniele was 41 years old. She worked in the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu) in Rio de Janeiro and in an Emergency Care Unit (UPA) in Nova Iguaçu, in Baixada Fluminense. In mid-April, she started with a dry cough and took time off work. Later, she had a high fever, severe tiredness and became a patient with suspected covid-19. Daniele had worked in the role for 18 years. "She was passionate about the profession and was always very concerned with others. Wo...

28Apr

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Germany, Medics, Profiles

Andreas Hagemann, Family Doctor

Andreas Hagemann – a Family Doctor in Praxis, Wahlwies, Germany – passed away on 27 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Andreas was 61 years old. Source: SUDKURIER Please help us in adding details.

Chavalit Soemprungsuk, painter, sculptor, and printmaker

28Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles

Chavalit Soemprungsuk, painter, sculptor, and printmaker

Chavalit Soemprungsuk a Thai painter, sculptor, and printmaker based in Thailand and the Netherlands died from COVID-19 at OLVG on April 27, 2020, at the age of 80. In 2014, Soemprungsuk was honored as a National Artist of Thailand for visual arts. Soemprungsuk was born in Khon Kaen, Thailand, located in the country's northeast Isan region, on July 30, 1939. He studied at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, where he was one of the last students of the Italian-born sculptor, Silpa Bhirasri. Soemprungsuk then moved to Amsterdam to enroll at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts). Soemprungsuk worked in several different visual arts throughout his career, including realistic and abstract paintings and sculpture. He focused on digital printing during the...

BerkatnuIndrawan Janguk, General Practitioner

28Apr

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Indonesia, Medics, Profiles

BerkatnuIndrawan Janguk, General Practitioner

BerkatnuIndrawan Janguk – a General Practitioner at Soewandhi Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 28 April 2020. Berkatnulndrawan was 27 years old. Source: Instagram Please help us in adding details.

28Apr

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Francesco Perrone, long-distance runner

Francesco Perrone an Italian long-distance runner died of COVID-19 on 27 April 2020 at the age of 89. He competed in the marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Perrone was an athlete of the Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro.

28Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Richard Kesner, Nurse

Richard Kesner – a Nurse at CareOne at The Highlands, Edison, New Jersey – passed away on 27 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Richard was 46 years old. Kesner, 46, who lived in Woodbridge, died five days later on April 22 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. He had continued to work long hours during the pandemic even though he had asthma, which put him at greater risk. A doctor told him his lung condition may have been rooted in years of working in a warehouse and breathing in dust before he changed careers, following his sister into nursing. Source: North Jersey.com Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Spain

José Agapito Montero, Nurse

José Agapito Montero, a Nurse at Centro de Salud Puertollano 3 Carlos Mestre, Ciudad Real, Spain, died on April 26 due to COVID-19 at the age of 63. He was reportedly in the ICU of the Santa Bárbara hospital for several weeks. Source: Cadenaser Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Elma Cavalida, Maternity Assistant

Elma Cavalida – a Maternity Assistant at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. London, England – passed away on 26 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Elma was 49 years old. Her death comes amid suggestions that those from ethnic minority backgrounds should be moved away from the front line to non-patient facing roles, as UK data shows they are ‘disproportionately affected by Covid-19’. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in mid-February and told that her condition was ‘curable’, but she would have to go through at least a year-and-a-half of treatment. The maternity assistant decided to continue working at the hospital until her chemotherapy started in late-March, but took every precaution possible, even buying her own stash of PPE equipment. After her last day of work in late Marc...

María del Rosario Cisneros Valdez, General Practitioner

27Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

María del Rosario Cisneros Valdez, General Practitioner

María del Rosario Cisneros Valdez – a General Practitioner at ISSSTE Hospital General, Poza Rica de Hidalgo, Veracruz, Mexico – passed away on 26 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Maria was 65 years old. According to the union leader, it was due to atypical pneumonia, but they expect results from COVID-19. Although staff of the institution has not issued a message, Petra Carreón Muñoz, general secretary of the SNTISSSTE section 35, spoke about it, who said that the death was due to atypical pneumonia in a heart attack. The blood sample was sent to the state public health laboratory in Veracruz port to find out the result; According to the co-workers of the now-defunct, since the beginning of the contingency, Dr. María del Rosario asked her union representative Carmen Arenas t...

27Apr

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India, Medics, Profiles

Biplab Dasgupta, Assistant Director

Biplab Dasgupta – an Assistant Director of Health Services in Kolkata, India passed away on 26 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Dr. Biplab Kanti Dasgupta, a senior government doctor involved in the fight against COVID-19 died at a hospital in Kolkata. Dasgupta, 60, posted as Assistant Director Health Services (equipment and stores) was initially admitted to Beliaghata Infectious Diseases hospital and later shifted to a private hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata on April 18. Dasgupta succumbed to the disease. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled Doctor Dasgupta's demise. ''We have lost Dr. Biplab Kanti Dasgupta Assistant Director, Health Services, West Bengal in the early hours of today. He was Assistant Director of Health Se...