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Anncha Kepkey, Nurse
29May By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, South Africa

Anncha Kepkey, Nurse

Anncha Kepkey – a Nurse at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Anncha was 52 years old. Source: iono.fm Please help us in adding details.
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Robert M. Laughlin, anthropologist & linguist
29May By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Robert M. Laughlin, anthropologist & linguist

Robert Moody Laughlin ‑ an American anthropologist and linguist, and a curator at the Smithsonian Institution – died of Covid-19 on May 28, 2020. His research focused on the indigenous Maya peoples of Chiapas, Mexico and the Tzotzil language. In 1975, he published The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán, containing 30,000 entries. He also published works on other aspects of Tzotzil culture, such as folktales and ethnobotany, and helped to found a local writer's cooperative, Sna Jtz'ibajom, and a theatre troupe. His work is credited with helping to standardize how the Tzotzil language is written and with reviving interest in indigenous languages in the region. Laughlin died of COVID-19 in Arlington, Virginia.
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Massimo Bosio, General Practitioner
28May By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Medics

Massimo Bosio, General Practitioner

Massimo Bosio – a General Practitioner in Pompiano, Italy – passed away on 27 May 2020 due to COVID-19. Massimo was 68 years old. Born and raised in Orzinuovi, where he still lived today, Massimo Bosio graduated from the Racchetti di Crema high school and then continued his studies at the University of Milan, where he graduated in Medicine. He had been practicing as a primary care physician for more than 40 years, always at the forefront, particularly in the municipalities of Corzano and Pompiano. Source: Brescia Today Please help us in adding details.
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Carlos Torres del Pozo, Family Doctor
28May By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, Spain

Carlos Torres del Pozo, Family Doctor

Carlos Torres del Pozo – a Family Doctor in Toledo, Spain – passed away on 27 May, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Carlos was 62 years old. The Official College of Physicians of Toledo has sent a note in which it joins the pain of family and friends and expresses its sincere condolences for the loss of another fellow colleague in this corporation: Dr. Carlos Torres del Pozo, 62, after 35 years of professional practice in the capital , where he had a private Family Medicine practice. The Board of Directors of the Official College of Physicians of Toledo "mourns the death of Dr. Carlos Torres and joins the pain of all the colleagues in the province in these moments of health alarm that are not being easy for the entire population, and especially , for health...
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Dr Rajesh Gupta, anaesthetist
26May By Web TeamNo Comments
India, Medics, Profiles, Sad But True, United Kingdom

Dr Rajesh Gupta, anaesthetist

Dr Rajesh Gupta, a consultant anaesthetist at the National Health Service (NHS)-run Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire, south-east England, was found dead earlier on May 25 and the cause of his death is yet to be established. The Indian-origin doctor working on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic at the UK hospital was found dead in the hotel he was staying in to isolate away from his family during the lockdown, reported Press Trust of India. “We are very sorry to pass on the sad news that our Frimley Health colleague Dr Rajesh Gupta has passed away,” Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust said in a statement on Friday. “Rajesh, who worked as a consultant at Wexham Park Hospital, was found on Monday afternoon in the hotel where he had been staying to protect hi...
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