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10May

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Portugal, Profiles

Abraham Palatnik, artist and inventor

Abraham Palatnik a Brazilian artist and inventor whose innovations include kinechromatic art – died from COVID-19 on May 9, 2020 at the age of 92 in Rio de Janeiro. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He is considered a pioneer of technological art in Brazil for his early use of mechanical systems and light. He exhibited some of his works in the First Biennial of São Paulo in 1951. Palatnik was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, lived from 1932 to 1947 in Israel before settling in Rio de Janeiro, where he spent most of his adult life. Two works by Palatnik are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

9May

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Greece, High Profilers, Medics, Profiles

Dimitris Kremastinos, politician

Dr Dimitris Kremastinos Dr Dimitris Kremastinos ‑ a Greek politician who served as an MP ‑ died after suffering from COVID-19 on May 8, 2020. He was 78. Greece’s former health minister, cardiologist and university professor Dimitris Kremastinos was a widely respected doctor who became a household name in Greece as the personal physician of late Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in the mid-1990s. He was admitted to Athens’ Evangelismos hospital on March 26. He died on May 8 after being in the intensive care unit for COVID-19.

9May

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Medics, Peru, Profiles

Dr Alberto Acuña Fernández, surgeon

Dr Alberto Acuña Fernández, a general surgeon, died of coronavirus almost two weeks of being admitted to Hospital III in Iquitos, Peru. Acuña, 62, worked for more than 10 years in the surgery department of the sanatorium. Source: El Comercio Please help us in adding details.

9May

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Brazil, High Profilers, Profiles

Dr Vicente André Gomes, Politician

Vicente André Gomes a Brazilian politician and physician with a specialization in cardiology from the state of Pernambuco died on May 8, 2020, at the age of 68 after almost 3 weeks of hospitalization due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Son of Geanny and Moacyr André Gomes. Gomes went to medical school at the Fundação de Ensino Superior de Pernambuco, graduated in 1978 and later finished his specialization in Cardiology at the Federal University of Pernambuco. During his medical career, Gomes worked at various well known hospitals in Recife, such as Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Recife and Hospital dos Servidores do Estado de Pernambuco from 1979 to 1981. In 1985, Gomes decided to pursue a career into politics and at the same year he was elected as one of the members of the Mun...

8May

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Medics, Philippines, Profiles

Dr Marcelo Jaochico

Dr. Marcelo Jaochico lost his heroic battle against the virus, he was being true to his vocation as “doctor to the barrios.” He was the provincial health officer of Pampanga and was the first awardee as Most Outstanding Doctor to the Barrios under the rural health program of the Department of Health. Thus, his daughter Cielo said in her Facebook page, Dr. Jaochico did not deserve to be regarded as than just a statistic. Dr. Jaochico served as doctor to the barrio in Calanasan, Apayao for 16 years here he multi-tasked as obstetrician, pediatrician and family physician, treating such ailments as dengue, malaria and measles. Once, to save a baby who had turned blue after delivery, he used his mouth to suction the obstruction out of the baby’s blocked windpipe. In his latest rural health...

8May

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Dr Niaz Ali, Pediatrician

Dr Niaz Ali – a Pediatrician at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, New Jersey – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Please help us in adding details.

8May

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Dr Isaac Abadi, Rheumatologist

Dr. Isaac “Saky” Abadi, a prominent Venezuelan rheumatologist who founded the country’s National Center for Rheumatic Diseases, died in Miami of COVID-19. He was 84. Abadi was born in Merida, a city in northwestern Venezuela. He graduated from the Universidad de los Andes’ medical school as a surgeon. The fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York was a member of the Rheumatology Service of the University Hospital of Caracas. Abadi was also the head of the Chair of Medical Clinic and Medical Therapeutics at the Luis Razetti School of Medicine. He continued lecturing at the Universidad Central de Venezuela’s medical school and made improvements to the educational curriculum of the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance. Local 10

8May

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Medics, Philippines, Profiles

Dr Raul Diaz Jara, Cardiologist

Dr. Raul Jara, acknowledged as a pillar of cardiology in the Philippines, was also described by the Philippine Heart Association as a “father, teacher, mentor, poet, author, singer, colleague, friend.” He is remembered by patients as a soothing and calming healer who used music to heal the heart. In his younger days as an activist physician, he fought the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and risked his life by treating patients in the underground movement, running rings around the military by faking the names and records of the activists he treated. Later in life, he would remain steadfast and true to his oath, joining a group of doctors attending to an aging martial law figure who had been on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum. In a statement, Dr. Ling Jara-Salva, one of Dr. Jara...

8May

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China, Medics, Profiles

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. ...

8May

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Dr. John F. Murray, Physician

Dr. John F. Murray, retired Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care at San Francisco General Hospital died at the age of 92 after contracting COVID-19. Murray is reportedly survived by his wife, novelist Diane Johnson, two children, four stepchildren and 14 grandchildren. A longtime Bay Area pulmonary physician credited with diagnosing a lung disease known as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) died of the same illness on Tuesday in Paris. Murray, retired former Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care at San Francisco General Hospital, died at his home at the age of 92. The UC San Francisco School of Medicine, where he served as Professor of Medicine emeritus, on Wednesday confirmed Murray’s death with a remembrance on its website. Murray served as the Chief of Pulmonology...