Dr Xia Sisi, Gastroenterologist

Dr. Xia Sisi, a gastroenterologist at Union Jiangbei Hospital of Wuhan, died of Covid-19.

She was 29 years old, married with a young child on whom she doted.

The young mother didn’t tell her child she had the coronavirus. Mama is working hard, she said, to save sick people.

Instead, Xia Sisi was fighting for her life in the same hospital where she worked, weak from fever and gasping for breath.

Xia came from a family of medical professionals. As a young child, she had accompanied her mother, a nurse, to work.

She joined the Union Jiangbei Hospital of Wuhan in 2015 and was the youngest doctor in her department.

Her colleagues called her “Little Sisi” or “Little Sweetie” because she always had a smile for them. She loved Sichuan hot pot, a dish famous for its numbingly spicy broth.

The New York Times