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Dr Sanat Dalal, Indore
India, Medics, Profiles

Dr Sanat Dalal, Indore

Dr Sanat Dalal, 79-year-old surgeon, passed away  after suffering from Covid-19. He was a soft-hearted, convivial personality who was known to go out of his way to offer charity medical services in the fields of Urology, Gynecology, Piles and Ano-Rectal Diseases. Everyday Dr. Dalal used to handle charity cases of sick people who couldn’t afford to pay for an operation. He operated more than 100,000 patients free of cost. He established a 400 beded super-speciality Charitable hospital in Bhilwara, Rajasthan. He was a trustee of Shiv Kothi Ashram,MP, India which offers Food, Education and Hospitality to the needy and poor people free of cost.
Dr Om Prakash Chauhan, Indore
India, Medics, Profiles

Dr Om Prakash Chauhan, Indore

Dr. Om Prakash Chauhan, a general physician, died on April 3 in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. He ran a private clinic in Indore's Marimata Chauraha area and had tested positive for the virus three days ago. He was admitted to Aurobindo Hospital and was on ventilator support.
Dr Shatrughan Punjwani, Indore
India, Medics, Profiles

Dr Shatrughan Punjwani, Indore

Dr. Shatrughan Panjwani, who had tested positive for Coronavirus earlier this week, succumbed to the viral infection in  the wee hours of  April 9 at Indore's Sri Aurobindo Hospital. A 62-year-old general physician, Panjwani had his clinic in the Manik Bagh locality and used to treat over 150 patients, mostly from the middle and lower-income groups, on any given day. The doctor tested positive for Covid-19 just two days back though he had developed symptoms of the infection over a week ago, Outtlook quoted sources close to the Panjwani family as saying. Panjwani is survived by his wife and three sons, who are settled in Australia.
Doctor, 29, who delayed wedding to fight virus, dies
China, Profiles, Sad But True

Doctor, 29, who delayed wedding to fight virus, dies

Dr Peng Yinhua, pulmonary and critical care at First People’s Hospital in Wuhan’s Jiangxia district A young Chinese doctor who had delayed his wedding to fight the Covid-19 virus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, died on February 20), less than a month after he was hospitalised, Chinese media reported.  Peng Yinhua, 29, was supposed to be married on Feb 1, but postponed his nuptials to fight the outbreak. The doctor of pulmonary and critical care at First People’s Hospital in Wuhan’s Jiangxia district was hospitalised on Jan 25, having contracted the virus in his frontline efforts fighting Covid-19, said a post on the Facebook page of The People’s Daily newspaper. On Feb 1, the original date of his wedding before the epidemic struck, his condition worsened and...
James M. Cross, Ice hockey player & coach
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

James M. Cross, Ice hockey player & coach

James M. Cross an American ice hockey player and coach who led the Vermont Catamounts of the University of Vermont for nineteen seasons died in Georgia of complications of COVID-19 on May 2, 2020, at age 87. Cross graduated from Boston University in 1960, having played ice hockey for the Terriers for two seasons. In his senior year, he helped the team record a third-place finish at the 1960 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. While at BU, Cross played collegiate summer baseball with the Dennis Clippers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. After graduating from BU, Cross became the director of physical education at Lyman C. Hunt School, a position he held for four years before accepting the head coaching position at nearby Vermont. Cross joined the program in only its third year of e...
Dr James Mahoney, pulmonologist
Medics, Profiles, United States

Dr James Mahoney, pulmonologist

Dr James A. "Charlie" Mahoney ‑ an American pulmonologist and internist – succumbed to Covid-19 on April 27, 2020. He was head of the intensive care unit and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. James A. Mahoney was born in either 1957 or 1958 to Leila and Oscar Mahoney. His father was a member of the United States Air Force. Mahoney was raised in military housing in Bermuda and the South Shore in Nassau County, New York. He had 4 siblings. As a child, a family friend nicknamed him Charlie. He began working with his older brother at the age of 8. They worked at a laundromat, German delicatessen, and a lunch counter. Mahoney was the captain of the football team at Roosevelt High School. Mahoney completed a B.S. at C.W. Post in 1981 while worki...
Dr Ashraf Adly, cardiologist
Egypt, Medics, Profiles

Dr Ashraf Adly, cardiologist

Dr Ashraf Adly -- a cardiologist, Head of CCU at Qena General Hospital, Qena, Egypt -- died due to COVID-19  at the age of 60. Egypt’s Medical professions syndicate announced on April 24 that Dr. Ashraf Adly, the head Cardiologist in Qena General hospital passed away due to Coronavirus complications. Late Dr. Ashraf is the fourth physician in Egypt to die because of Coronavirus. Dr. Adly is survived by a wife, a son and two daughters. Source: 24 Live Blog Please help us in adding details.
Enrique Castellón Vargas, Flamenco singer, actor and dancer
Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Enrique Castellón Vargas, Flamenco singer, actor and dancer

Enrique Castellón Vargas aka El Príncipe Gitano ("The Gypsy Prince") a Spanish flamenco singer, actor and dancer – died on 22 April 2020, due to Covid-19 complications. He was the brother of rumba singer Dolores Vargas "La Terremoto". At the age of 14 he made his debut at the Teatro Calderón in Madrid in the same show as Lola Flores and very soon after he performed his first show, “Pinceladas”, becoming a great figure in Spanish song in the 1950s, despite the fact that his real passion was bullfighting, but he did not have success in that field. His most famous song is "Obí, obá". He also made a peculiar version of the Elvis Presley song "In the Ghetto".
Donald Kennedy, scientist, public administrator, and academic
High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Donald Kennedy, scientist, public administrator, and academic

He served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1977–79), President of Stanford University (1980–92), and Editor-in-Chief of Science (2000–08). Following this, he was named president emeritus of Stanford University; Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, emeritus; and senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Donald Kennedy was born on August 18, 1931 in New York City, the son of Barbara Bean and William Dorsey Kennedy. He attended Dublin School through high school and went on to attend Harvard University, where he received an A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. in Biology, in 1956. His doctoral dissertation was titled Studies on the Frog Electroretinogram. From 1956 to 1960, Kennedy taught biology at Syracuse University, receiving...