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 Asunción.
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.