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27Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Julio Herrera, Nurse

Julio Herrera – a Nurse, Chief of Service at IMSS Hospital General de Zona No. 15, Reynosa, Mexico – passed away on 26 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Source: HC Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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Medics, United States

Araceli Buendia Ilagan, Nurse

Araceli Buendia Ilagan – an ICU Nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida – passed away on 27 March,2020, due to COVID-19. Araceli was 63 years old. "As we battle this global public health crisis, caregivers throughout the world are bravely serving on the frontlines, often putting their patients' lives before theirs. These medical professionals — people like Araceli — are the true heroes, and we salute them all," the Jackson Health System, which runs the hospital, said in a statement. "My dearest sister, we admired you for your dedication on your profession. We are very, very proud of you. You're a true 'Hero' in this fight against Covid-19," Roy Buendia wrote. Source: CBS News Please help us in ad...

27Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Elma Cavalida, Maternity Assistant

Elma Cavalida – a Maternity Assistant at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. London, England – passed away on 26 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Elma was 49 years old. Her death comes amid suggestions that those from ethnic minority backgrounds should be moved away from the front line to non-patient facing roles, as UK data shows they are ‘disproportionately affected by Covid-19’. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in mid-February and told that her condition was ‘curable’, but she would have to go through at least a year-and-a-half of treatment. The maternity assistant decided to continue working at the hospital until her chemotherapy started in late-March, but took every precaution possible, even buying her own stash of PPE equipment. After her last day of work in late Marc...

María del Rosario Cisneros Valdez, General Practitioner

27Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

María del Rosario Cisneros Valdez, General Practitioner

María del Rosario Cisneros Valdez – a General Practitioner at ISSSTE Hospital General, Poza Rica de Hidalgo, Veracruz, Mexico – passed away on 26 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Maria was 65 years old. According to the union leader, it was due to atypical pneumonia, but they expect results from COVID-19. Although staff of the institution has not issued a message, Petra Carreón Muñoz, general secretary of the SNTISSSTE section 35, spoke about it, who said that the death was due to atypical pneumonia in a heart attack. The blood sample was sent to the state public health laboratory in Veracruz port to find out the result; According to the co-workers of the now-defunct, since the beginning of the contingency, Dr. María del Rosario asked her union representative Carmen Arenas t...

27Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Russia

Zhang Junfeng, Manual Therapist

Zhang Junfeng – a Manual Therapist in Russia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 27 April, 2020. Fen was 34 years old. Source: First russia Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Paulo Henrique Lima, Nursing Technician

Paulo Henrique Lima – a Nursing Technician at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Paulo was 40 years old. Please help us in adding details.

27Apr

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India, Medics, Profiles

Biplab Dasgupta, Assistant Director

Biplab Dasgupta – an Assistant Director of Health Services in Kolkata, India passed away on 26 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Dr. Biplab Kanti Dasgupta, a senior government doctor involved in the fight against COVID-19 died at a hospital in Kolkata. Dasgupta, 60, posted as Assistant Director Health Services (equipment and stores) was initially admitted to Beliaghata Infectious Diseases hospital and later shifted to a private hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata on April 18. Dasgupta succumbed to the disease. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled Doctor Dasgupta's demise. ''We have lost Dr. Biplab Kanti Dasgupta Assistant Director, Health Services, West Bengal in the early hours of today. He was Assistant Director of Health Se...

27Apr

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Joan Wittman, grandmother

Joan Wittman ‑ a mother, grandmother and a good friend from Minneapolis ‑ lost her life to COVID-19 on April 26 at 88 years old. Her sweetness drew even the family dog in from the time Joan Wittman was born in 1931. “She grew up here in Minneapolis,” her daughter Joan Berendt said. “She left school at 10th grade she started working to help the family out. But, one of the smartest people I ever knew.” Joan did crossword puzzles in ink and her daughter says her mom’s nose was always buried in a book. “I was really, really close to her,” Berendt said. In fact, her mom lived with Jill Berendt’s family and helped to raise Jill’s kids, until dementia forced them two years ago to move Joan to North Ridge in New Hope. Like ...

27Apr

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Medics, Mexico

Francisco Brito Barrera, Neurosurgeon

Francisco Brito Barrera – a Neurosurgeon at IMSS Hospital General Regional No. 17, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico – passed away on 26 April 2020, due to COVID-19. Francisco was 58 years old. Francisco Brito Barrera, 58 years old, cared for people hospitalized in the hospital, but not in the apartment assigned to treat suspected patients or who tested positive for the virus, the institution reported. Source: HC Please help us in adding details.

John Mondello, Emergency Medical Technician

26Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

John Mondello, Emergency Medical Technician

John Mondello – an Emergency Medical Technician at Tactical Response Group, New York City (suicide) – passed away after suffering from COVID-19.It was reported on 26 April 2020. John was 23 years old. John Mondello was found dead from a gunshot wound discharged from a weapon registered to his retired NYPD father, in Queens on Friday. Mondello was found after a passerby spotted the body just after 6.45pm on rocks along a river wall on Shore Boulevard in Astoria. Source: Mail Online Please help us in adding details.