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22Mar

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Indonesia, Medics, Profiles

Dr Hadio Ali K, Neurologist

Hadio Ali K – a Neurologist at Public Hospital, South Jakarta, Indonesia – passed away on 21 March,2020, due to COVID-19. He was 49 years old. Source: Liputan 6 Please help us in adding details.

22Mar

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Israel, Medics, Philippines, Profiles

Dr. Israel Bactol, Cardiologist

Dr Israel Bactol, a promising 34-year-old Cardiology Fellow working at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC), lost his fight against Covid-19, on March 21. “I’ve been around many physicians. Everybody’s brilliant. But, every now and then, you come across a person who just separates himself from the crowd. That’s El,” Dr Tom-Louie Acosta told Rappler in an interview. Acosta, an internist, is Bactol’s close friend and co-trainee from his 3-year residency at Premiere Medical Center in Cabanatuan City. “You can’t help but gravitate towards him because he was such a beautiful person, on top of being a brilliant physician,” he added. Bactol’s memory is etched in the hearts of his family, friends, fellow physcians, hospital colleagues, and patients coming from underserved communities. Bactol...

21Mar

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Profiles

Hugo Díez Pérez, Neurologist

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 AsunciÃ³n. 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.

21Mar

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Pakistan, Profiles

Dr. Usama Riaz, Physician

Dr. Usama Riaz is being hailed as a hero In Pakistan for courageously putting his life on the line to treat patients with Covid-19. Even though the 26-year-old doctor didn’t have adequate protective gear, he kept fighting for his patients until he eventually lost his life to the disease. He died on March 20. He’s a hero in Pakistan but the world should know his name. Riaz was part of a ten-person team screening pilgrims who recently returned to Pakistan from Iraq and Iran. He later treated these patients at isolation centers in Gilit, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. On March 20, after treating his patients, Riaz went to bed but couldn’t get up in the morning. He was rushed to a military hospital for a CT scan but the equipment didn’t work. He was put on a ventilator and died two da...

17Mar

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Italy, Medics, Profiles

Dr Luigi Ablondi, Epidemiologist

Dr Luigi Ablondi, 66, an epidemiologist and former director of the Crema Hospital (CR), Lombardy, passed away from Covid-19 on March 16, 2020. Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208607002/luigi-ablondi Please help us in adding details.

12Mar

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Italy, Medics, Profiles

Dr Roberto Stella, physician

Dr Roberto Stella –an Italian physician who worked as a general practitioner in Busto Arsizio – succumbed to Covid-19 on 11 March 2020. He held numerous positions in national medical associations, including serving as president of the Italian Scientific Society for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners and the National Interdisciplinary Medical Society of Primary Care. Roberto Stella was born in Busto Arsizio on 22 July 1952. Stella earned a doctor of medicine and surgery from University of Milan in 1978. He served in the Alpini and was a volunteer Alpino medic during the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. Stella specialized in general hematology in Pavia in 1984. Stella ran a medical clinic in Busto Arsizio. In 2017, Ste...

Dr Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani, physician & politician

10Mar

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Iran, Medics, Profiles

Dr Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani, physician & politician

Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani –an Iranian physician and reformist politician – succumbed to Covid-19 on 9 March 2020. From 1984 to 2000, he represented Sabzevar in the Iranian Parliament. During the early 2000s, he headed Iran's State Welfare Organization. Rahchamani was born in 1952 in Sabzevar and studied medicine. There is no record of imprisonment for him before the Iranian Revolution, and he is not an Iran–Iraq War veteran. A founding member of the Islamic Iran Solidarity Party, from 1998 to 2002 he was the party's secretary-general and in 2006 became chairman of the central council. He was also a founding member of the Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society. In 2020, as the secretary-general of the National Unity and Cooperation Party, he defied the decision of mainstream refo...

11Feb

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China, Medics, Profiles

Dr Lin Zhengbin, physician

Dr Lin Zhengbin –a Chinese physician and organ transplant expert at Wuhan Tongji Hospital – died from Covid-19 on 10 February 2020. Lin graduated from Tongji Medical College in 1987, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine. After graduation, he started his career at Wuhan Tongji Hospital , engaged in organ transplants for more than 30 years. He was chief physician of the Institute of Organ Transplantation of Tongji Hospital. He retired in July 2017, but was rehired by Wuhan Tongji Hospital. During the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Lin was infected with the coronavirus. He died on 10 February 2020 due to complications caused by the disease. Falun Gong supporters accused him of harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitio...

9Feb

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China, Profiles

Dr Xu Hui

Dr. Xu Hui, 51, vice-head of the Nanjing Hospital of Chinese medicine, died due to Covid-19 in China on February 7, 2020. Dr. Hui, who co-lead a team dedicated to treating Covid-19 patients, was hauled a hero for working nonstop for 18 days while on the frontlines fighting the virus that ultimately took her life. The 51-year-old Xu Hui was the vice-head of the Nanjing Hospital of Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, and was co-leading a team to treat patients infected with coronavirus (Covid-19). She passed away “unexpectedly” in the early morning of Feb. 7 due to “a sudden illness” after working for 18 days straight, Xinhua reported. According to a statement released on Monday, Feb. 12, Lou said, “Xu led by example, and dedicated herself completely...

8Feb

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China, Profiles

Dr Li Wenliang, Physician

Dr. Li Wenliang, 34, a Chinese physician recognized as the whistleblower in Wuhan, died on February 7, 2020, shortly after an interview from his hospital bed. The death of a Chinese doctor who tried to warn about the coronavirus outbreak had sparked widespread public anger and grief in China. Li Wenliang died after contracting the virus while treating patients in Wuhan. Last December he had sent a message to fellow medics warning of a virus he thought looked like Sars â€“ another deadly coronavirus. But he was told by police to “stop making false comments” and was investigated for “spreading rumours”. “I don’t think he was rumour-mongering. Hasn’t this turned into reality now?” his father, Li Shuying, told the BBC. “My son was wonderful.” According to Chinese site Pear Video, Dr Li...