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Tag: Covid

Luis Fernando Mateos, General Practitioner
Medics, Profiles, Spain

Luis Fernando Mateos, General Practitioner

Luis Fernando Mateos – a Family Medicine/General Practitioner at Centro de salud de Linares de Riofrío, Salamanca, Spain – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Luis was 64 years old. As reported by the EFE agency, citing sources from the Salamanca College of Physicians, Mateos Arroyo had been admitted to the ICU for several weeks and was unable to overcome the disease. Source: SEN Please help us in adding details.
Pedro Carrillo León, Nurse
Medics, Profiles, Spain

Pedro Carrillo León, Nurse

Pedro Carrillo León – a Nurse at Hospital Neurotraumatológico, JaĆ©n, Spain – passed away due to COVID-19. It was reported on April 7, 2020. Pedro was 59 years old. The profession and the College of Nursing in JaĆ©n are in mourning. The nurse Pedro Carrillo León died and is the first fatality of the coronavirus in the province. He worked at the Neurotraumatológico Hospital. His wife, Dulce Espinosa, is also a nurse. The manager of the JaĆ©n Hospital Complex. Osamah El RubaidĆ­, I regret his death in a heartfelt communication. He was united by "a special friendship" with the nurse. "He has been an exemplary professional of recognized prestige, with an impeccable professional and teaching career," he valued.  Source: Jaen Please help us in adding details.
Chris Firlit, Surgeon
Medics, Profiles, United States

Chris Firlit, Surgeon

Chris Firlit – a PGY6 Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery Chief Resident in Detroit, Michigan (presumed) – passed away on 5 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19.  Chris was 32 years old. He experienced a fever before his chief fellow drove him to Providence Hospital in Southfield, where he died of suspected COVID-19, Dr. Rafael L. Barretto, director of medical education, wrote in a message obtained by The News. While it is not immediately clear whether Firlit's exposure came at work, Baretto's note underscored rising tensions about the increasing use of residents — physicians who are training in their specialty — in medical areas that are not their specialty during this crisis. "As we continue to ramp up using our re...
Earl Bailey, Nurse
Medics, Profiles, United States

Earl Bailey, Nurse

Earl Bailey – a Registered Nurse in Broward County, Florida – passed away on 5 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Earl was 56 years old. Earl Bailey worked for a staffing company, Tenet Resource Agency, assigned to shifts at multiple hospitals, mostly Florida Medical Center in Lauderdale Lakes, according to his family. Sashia Bailey, of Pompano Beach, said her father got sick about two weeks ago “and they told him to go home and quarantine.” “I’m upset he was told to go home and self-quarantine and return if you feel worse. Not everyone has that opportunity to return,” she said. “We don’t know where my dad caught it from.” Bailey died on April 5 morning at his Sunrise home, almost immediately after “his breathing ...
Juan Antonio Mingorance Espinosa, General Practitioner
Medics, Profiles, Spain

Juan Antonio Mingorance Espinosa, General Practitioner

Juan Antonio Mingorance Espinosa – a Family Medicine/General Practitioner, Military Doctor at Centro privadoVirgen de la Caridad, Cartagena, Spain – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 6 April 2020. Juan was 72 years old. He was a well-known doctor in Cartagena, first as a military man and then as a company doctor. The doctor had confined himself to the house a week earlier with symptoms. He entered the plant of the Santa Lucía Hospital and, later, in the ICU, where he died at dawn. After retiring as a military doctor, he worked at the Virgen de la Caridad private center and did so as a Primary Care doctor. His center wrote this message on social networks to honor and dismiss him: "We are very sorry to report that our colle...
Daisy Doronila, Nurse
Medics, Profiles, United States

Daisy Doronila, Nurse

Daisy Doronila – a Nurse at Hudson County Jail, Kearny, New Jersey – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. A nurse at the Hudson County jail in Kearny has died, county officials said in an email obtained by The Jersey Journal. Daisy Doronila, who has worked at the jail for more than 20 years, was hospitalized at Mountainside Medical Center. County officials said Doronila had been out of work since March 14. In a Facebook post, her daughter said that she was initially diagnosed by her private doctor with strep throat on March 16 and was not approved for a coronavirus test. By March 24 Doronila was on a ventilator fighting for her life, her daughter said. Source: NJ Please help us in adding details.
Susan Cicala, Nurse
Medics, Profiles, United States

Susan Cicala, Nurse

Susan Cicala – a Nurse at Clara Mass Medical Center and Northern State Prison, Belleville – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on April 6, 2020. Susan was 60 years old. Source: New Jersey 1015 Please help us in adding details.