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Palermo Wilson Cruz Acuria, General Practitioner

16Apr

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Ecuador, Medics, Profiles

Palermo Wilson Cruz Acuria, General Practitioner

Palermo Wilson Cruz Acuria – a General Practitioner at Clínica Palermo, Guayaquil, Ecuador – passed away on 15 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Palmero was 62 years old. His relatives remember him as a human being with a “big heart”, since from his Palermo clinic, on 17th and Maldonado streets, southwest of the city, he often attended low-income people free of charge and delivered medicines in the sector. With a vast career between Ecuador and Argentina, Cruz was an outstanding surgeon. "He is already in a better place, his cycle ended here, helping many people," said his son Wilson. Source: El Universo Please help us in adding details.

16Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Huy Hao Dao, Physician

Huy Hao Dao – a Public Health Physician in Montreal, Canada – passed away on 16 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Huy was 44 years old. Dr. Huy Hao Dao, worked at the public health authority for the Montérégie region and was also a professor in the department of community health sciences at the University of Sherbrooke in Longueuil, Que. Between 2016 and 2017, Dao worked for Quebec's public health institute (INSPQ), which is leading the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. Dr. Horacio Arruda, Quebec's public health director, confirmed the death at the province's daily briefing on the pandemic .Without identifying Dao by name, Arruda said the doctor had not been in contact with patients. Arruda said if nothing else, the death ...

16Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Habibhai Babu, Physician

Habibhai Babu – a Physician/Senior House Officer at Whipps Cross Hospital, London, England – passed away due to COVID-19. It is with deep sadness to announce that we have lost a member of the Barts Health family: Dr Habibhai Babu – known to all of us as Babu – an SHO in older people’s services at Whipps Cross Hospital. Source: NHS Barts Health Please help us in adding details.

Maurizio Bertaccini, General Practitioner

15Apr

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Italy, Medics, Profiles

Maurizio Bertaccini, General Practitioner

Maurizio Bertaccini – a General Practitioner in Italy –passed away on 14 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Maurizio was 67 year old. "He was warm-hearted and generous and well-loved. He even spent his time working with handicapped children before the virus came to Italy. It's a big loss for his family and also for the community that he was an important part of." Source: Xinhaunet Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Jenniffer Davis, Nurse

Jenniffer Davis – a Nurse at Meramec Bluffs Care Center, Ballwin, Missouri – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 15 April, 2020. Officials said Jenniffer Davis was a nurse at Meramec Bluffs for three years. "Jenniffer’s coworkers remember her as a thorough and well-respected nurse who had a smile that could warm any heart," officials said in a statement. "We know that she will be greatly missed by the Meramec Bluffs and Lutheran Senior Services family." Source: KMOV4 Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

John Ferrarella, Firefighter

John Ferrarella – a Firefighter at Wayne Fire Company 3, Wayne, New Jersey – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. John was 70 years old. John was a Marine, and later a Captain with the Paterson Fire Department, where he was instrumental in the newly developed Paterson EMS system and P.E.M.T.A. He would later serve as the EMT-Basic Program coordinator at Passaic County Community College, an instructor at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute, and was an EMT evaluator. He continued to work as an EMT throughout his long career, and served with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. John also was an instructor for the Bergen County Harley Davidson Motorcycle Program, FDU and Montclair motorcycle programs. Source: Facebook Please help us i...

15Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Serbia

Miodrag Lazić, Surgeon

Miodrag Lazić, 65, Surgeon, Nis, Serbia – passed away on 14 April 2020 after suffer suffering from COVID-19. Miodrag was 65 years old. Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Miguel Ángel Martínez, Nurse

Miguel Ángel Martínez – a Nurse at ISSSTE Regional Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 15 April 2020. Miguel Ángel was a nurse at the ISSSTE Regional Hospital October 1 and was infected by attending to dozens of people with covid-19 every day. He did it without the protection he should because neither he nor his companions have the necessary material. He bought what he could, but it wasn't enough. He was first classified with mild symptoms, so it was enough to isolate himself at home with all the necessary citizens. Source: Telediario Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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Greece, Mexico, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Helen Damico, littérateur

Helen Damico ‑ a scholar of Old English and Old English literature – passed away on April 14, 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. Damico was a professor emerita at the University of New Mexico, where she began teaching in 1981 and founded the Institute for Medieval Studies. She was previously on the faculty of Brooklyn College and the University of Minnesota. She earned her B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1952, and received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1980. The author of Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition, Damico made important contributions to the study of women in Old English and Old Norse literature, and her work on Wealhþeow is frequently cited. She saw representations of the valkyrie in both Wealhþeow and Grendel's Mothe...

15Apr

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Aldo di Cillo Pagotto, archbishop

Aldo di Cillo Pagotto ‑ a Brazilian Catholic archbishop ‑ died in Fortaleza from Covid-19-related complications on 14 April 2020. Pagotto was born in Brazil, 16 September 1949. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1977. He served as coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sobral, Brazil, in 1996 and 1997 and as bishop of the Sobral Diocese from 1997 to 2004. He then became archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paraíba, Brazil, from 2004 to 2016.