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4May

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Dr Alex Hsu, United States

Dr. Alex Hsu, 67, a Broward County doctor who served the community for close to 40 years died of the new coronavirus. Officials haven’t said whether Hsu’s case stemmed from him traveling abroad or whether it was work-related. It also was not clear when he became ill. “It’s so sad,” said a receptionist who answered the phone at Hsu’s practice. Hsu was in private practice though until 2017 had been associated Northwest Medical Center in Margate. His death was the region’s first for a case where a medical provider has died from the disease. A daughter who answered the family’s phone was too distraught to talk. “I really need to be with my family.” Hsu’s patients were notified by phone of his passing, said a patient who asked not to be identified. She described Hsu...

4May

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Dr Alfa Saadu, United Kingdom

A British doctor who dedicated nearly 40 years to saving others died on March 31 after contracting coronavirus. Dr Alfa Saadu, 68, died on Tuesday afternoon at the Whittington Hospital in north London. The doctor had been a medical director at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex and Ealing NHS Trust and worked at many hospitals in the capital. Tributes have been paid to Dr Saadu, including from the former president of the Nigerian Senate. Two weeks ago Dr Saadu started to show symptoms of coronavirus and immediately self-isolated. His son Dani Saadu said the family suggested he should go to hospital, but his father insisted he “did not want to take up a hospital bed because others would need it”. Mr Saadu added: “He was a very passionate man, who cared about sav...

4May

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Egypt, Medics, Profiles

Dr Ahmed Al-Lawah, Egypt

Dr Ahmed al-Lawah died of coronavirus (Covid-19) on March 30, according to Egypt’s ministry of Health. Lawah, 57, is considered to be first Egyptian doctor who died of Covid-19 infection, according to the ministry. Spokesperson Khaled Megahed said in statement that Lawah’s health condition was relatively stable; however, he witnessed sudden deterioration on March 29. Egypt Today

4May

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Dr Adil El Tayar, United Kingdom

Dr Adil El Tayar, a renowned organ transplant specialist, was the first working NHS surgeon to die from coronavirus in Britain. He is thought to have contracted the illness while working in the A&E department at Hereford County Hospital, where he had volunteered to help fight the pandemic. The Sudanese locum, 63, had no idea that the patient he was treating had coronavirus, family said. Dr El Tayar had been self-isolating after developing symptoms around mid-March and he was admitted to hospital on 20 March. He tested positive for coronavirus and spent his final days in intensive care. His cousin, Dr Hisham El Khidir, a Norfolk consultant, warned that doctors were “sitting ducks” and said more testing could have saved Dr El Tayar’s life. “His son was really scared that he wasn’t g...

Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, United Kingdom

4May

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Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, United Kingdom

Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53 Urologist, Homerton Hospital, London, United Kingdom Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, a consultant urologist at Homerton hospital in Hackney east London, died after spending 15 days in Queens hospital, Romford. Last month he wrote a Facebook message to Boris Johnson outlining the urgent need for PPE for frontline staff and calling for testing for healthcare workers to be fast-tracked. He wrote: “Dear and respectable prime minister Mr Boris Johnson, Please ensure urgently PPE for each and every NHS health worker.” He told Johnson that healthcare workers “are in direct contact with patients” and have a “human right like others to live in this world disease-free with our family and children”. Philip Glanville, the Labour mayor of Hackney, hailed Chowdhury...

Dr Laxminarayan Reddy, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

4May

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India, Medics, Profiles

Dr Laxminarayan Reddy, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Dr Laxminarayan Reddy, from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh Dr Laxminarayan Reddy on April 4 opened a new hospital where he admitted a patient for surgery. Dr Reddy's contacts could not come to his rescue, once he was diagnosed with COVID-19. Reports said that even ambulance drivers had refused to shift him to Chennai. He was in the Apollo Hospital's ICU for the last 5 days.

4May

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Dr Nizamuddin, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh on April 20 witnessed the first death of a doctor due to COVID-19 in Moradabad. Dr Nizamuddin, who had succumbed to the deadly coronavirus in the city of brass, had tested positive for the virus on April 10. The deceased doctor was posted at Tajpur Primary Health Centre (PHC). After testing positive for the deadly virus, he was admitted to the isolation ward of Tirthankar Medical University (TMU) in the city. The condition of Dr Nizamuddin continued to deteriorate soon after he got the virus. He was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on April 11 and subsequently put on a life support system. His condition worsened after he suffered a cardiac arrest on late on Sunday night. The doctor died on the morning of April 20.

4May

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Dr John L. Sailo Ryntathiang, Shillong

Dr John L. Sailo Ryntathiang, 69, died in Shillong due to Covid-19 on April 15, the first death in the state of Meghalaya. Six of his family members have also tested positive for the coronavirus. Dr Sailo, who completed his MBBS from AMC Dibrugarh and his MD in medicine from AIIMS, New Delhi, was well-known in Shillong as the owner of the Bethany Hospital. He had tested positive for Covid-19 in Shillong on April 13.

4May

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Dr Simon Hercules, Chennai

Dr Simon Hercules, Managing Director, New Hope Hospital, Chennai Dr Simon Hercules, the Managing Director of New Hope Hospital in Chennai had passed away on Sunday, after contracting COVID-19 in early April. The neurosurgeon was on duty when he himself succumbed to the dreaded coronavirus. When his body was brought to the Velangadu cemetery in Ayanavaram, his family and friends had to face violence from the residents.

4May

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Italy, Medics, Profiles

Dr Abdulghani Taki Makki, Italy

Dr Abdulghani Taki Makki, 79, Dentist, Italy Dr. Abdulghani Makki, 79, was a Dentist and children’s book author from Sant’Elpidio a Mare, Italy. He died from Covid-19 on March 24, 2020. Born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1941, Makki was not only known as a doctor but also as a cultural pillar in his local community in Sant’Elpidio a Mare, in Italy’s Marche region. “He was a symbol of cultural integration, his tales will be his legacy,” said his friend Corrado Virgili, who last saw him on March 2. After studying medicine and surgery in Italy, he had planned to return to Syria. But he fell in love with an Italian woman and had called Italy home since 1961. Makki specialised in reanimation as well as paediatrics, and later dentistry. He helped his eldest daughter Leila open and run a f...