Profiles – Page 75

Sergio Félix Gomez, General Practitioner

21Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Sergio Félix Gomez, General Practitioner

Sergio Félix Gomez – a General Practitioner in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 21 April, 2020. Source: Facebook Please help us in adding details.

21Apr

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Ireland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Tom Mulholland, Gaelic footballer

Tom Mulholland ‑ a Gaelic footballer who played senior football for Kilkerley Emmets, Louth and Leinster – died from Covid-19 on 20 April 2020. He was also honorary president of the Kilkerley Emmets club. Mulholland lived in the village of Kilkerley, near Dundalk, where he was a dairy farmer. He had six sisters and one brother. He was married in 1968 and had eight children. Some of his children played football and camogie at various levels. Mulholland pursued his involvement in athletics until he was in his seventies. After an outbreak of COVID-19 at Dealgan House Nursing Home (where he resided), Mulholland was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where he died on 20 April 2020.

21Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Turkey

Nuri Idiz, Occupational Physician

Nuri Idiz – an Occupational Physician in Izmir, Turkey – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 20 April 2020. Nuri was 54 years old. Source: Gazete Duva R Please help us in adding details.

21Apr

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Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Frederic Jota Silva Lima, Physician

Frederic Jota Silva Lima – a Physician at UPA Itaquera, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Lima was 32 years old. Please help us in adding details.

21Apr

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Medics, Poland, Profiles

Grażyna Krawczyk, Nurse

Grażyna Krawczyk – a Nurse at Department of Infectious Diseases, Kozienice, Poland – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 21 April, 2020. Grazyna was 59 years old. Source: Facebook Please help us in adding details.

Manjeet Singh Riyat, emergency medicine consultant

21Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Manjeet Singh Riyat, emergency medicine consultant

Manjeet Singh Riyat a British emergency care consultant died, aged 52, at the hospital where he worked, on 20 April 2020. Riyat is described as the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom. After education at the University of Leicester, qualifying in 1992, and training at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County Hospital, he joined Royal Derby Hospital as a consultant in emergency medicine, in 2003. He rose to be head of the emergency department there in 2006, and was chair of the hospital's medical advisory committee and its medical staffing committee. Riyat taught emergency medicine at Derby College. He served as an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine from 2007, becoming lead examiner for their fellowship examinations in 20...

21Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Grant Maganga, Mental Health Nurse

Grant Maganga – a Mental Health Nurse at Hurst Place in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, Manchester, England – passed away on 20 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Grant was 56 years old. Mr Maganga, who died aged 56, was a mental health nurse at Hurst Place, a rehabilitation unit for men with severe mental illness and complex needs in Ashton-under-Lyme, Greater Manchester. Having gained his registration in 2009, he had worked at the unit since it was first established 10 years ago. Trust director of nursing Clare Parker described Mr Maganga as an outstanding nurse whose death was “another tremendous loss” to the nursing community. “Grant was an exceptional nurse who cared deeply for his patients and lit up the room with his infectious smile and positive personality,” she said. So...

Nurse, parents die due to Covid-19 within weeks

20Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Sad But True, United Kingdom

Nurse, parents die due to Covid-19 within weeks

Maurice Dunnington, son Keith and wife Lillian all died within weeks of each other Three members of the same family have died within weeks of each other after contracting coronavirus. Keith Dunnington, 54, a nurse for more than 30 years, died at his parents home in South Shields on 19 April. His mother Lillian, 81, died on 1 May and her husband Maurice, 85, died days later at South Tyneside Hospital. Keith's cousin Debbie Harvey said her family was heartbroken but praised the "absolutely amazing" NHS staff who "could not do enough" for the family. She said front-line hospital staff pushed Mr and Mrs Dunnington's beds together so they could hold hands. Dad-of-two Keith, who passed away last month, worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead. Yvonne Ormston MBE,...

20Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Spain

Joaquin Diaz Dominguez, Surgeon

Joaquin Diaz Dominguez – a Chief of Surgery and Digestive Diseases at Hospital Universitario La Paz, and Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Hospital Universitario La Paz & Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain – passed away on 19 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Dominguez was 64 years. He received the Doctorate Award from the López Sánchez Foundation, granted by the Royal Academy of Medicine and is the author of several publications and the book "History of Biliary Surgery in Spain". After learning the news, his colleagues from the hospital gathered at the gates of the center to pay tribute to a doctor "with a long history and loved by all," as indicated by the Minister of Hea...

20Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Karla Dominguez, Nurse

Karla Dominguez – a Registered Nurse at Hospitals of Providence–Memorial Campus, El Paso, Texas – passed away on 19 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Karla was 33 years old. Dominguez, 33, died April 19 at The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus, where she worked. She was admitted after going to the hospital's emergency room April 7 due to her constant migraines, her father, retired general practitioner Dr. Carlos Dominguez, said in a phone interview with the El Paso Times. Karla Dominguez was a pediatric intensive care nurse for about five years at Providence Children’s Hospital, he said. That hospital is part of the Memorial hospital campus next to the University of Texas at El Paso campus. “She was a dedicated person. She ha...