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Alberto Cordero Aroca, Physician
9Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Ecuador, Medics, Profiles

Alberto Cordero Aroca, Physician

Alberto Cordero Aroca – a Physician at Facultad de CienciasMédicas de la Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador – passed away due to COVID-19. The history and dissemination above all of the figure of Vicente Rocafuerte and the care of patients nuanced the life of Alberto Cordero Aroca, who died earlier this month. The doctor was head of boarding school and professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the U. of Guayaquil. His friend the poet Marigloria Cornejo remembered him as a being committed to history and a special desire to serve. "You never stopped serving who knocked on your door and you always did it with affection and with a special smile," he said of the doctor who served in the public area. Source: El Universo ...
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Pierre Gilet, General Practitioner
9Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
France, Medics, Profiles

Pierre Gilet, General Practitioner

Pierre Gilet, 64, a General Practitioner, Dannemarie, France – passed away on 8 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Gilet was 64 years old. "In general, kids cry at the doctor. At Doctor's home, mine only laughed. He was our country doctor. I almost never went to the pediatrician thanks to him, ”recalls his hairdresser and patient, Dominique. Pierre Gilet, hospitalized on March 22 in Mulhouse, died on April 8. He had proudly shown his trombine to Dominique during their last meeting. The evening of the announcement of the national confinement, the mayor Paul Mumbach had called upon him to recognize a death in the commune. “An old man had just thrown himself into the canal after learning that he was infected. When w...
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Fanny Durán Cuellar, Surgical Nurse
9Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Bolivia, Medics, Profiles

Fanny Durán Cuellar, Surgical Nurse

Fanny Durán Cuellar – a Surgical Nurse in Montero, Bolivia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 8 April, 2020. Fanny was 36 years old. Fanny Durán was 36 years old and 26 weeks pregnant, she was unable to meet her third daughter . She was tested on April 3 and tested positive for coronavirus. According to medical reports, she was admitted to intensive care from the beginning and, due to her seriousness, she was transferred from Montero to the Santa Cruz capital. First, she was a nursing assistant, worked for about five years in the Japanese colony San Juan, and then came to Montero, where she was born. She studied at the Finor (Faculty Integral del Norte) bachelor's degree and graduated in 2015. She was also an instrument...
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Mary Virginia Howell Christopher, Nurse
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United States

Mary Virginia Howell Christopher, Nurse

Mary Virginia Howell Christopher – a Registered Nurse in Army Nurse during World War II, New Orleans, Louisiana – passed away on 6 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Mary was 97 years old. Mary Virginia was born in Talladega, Alabama on May 24, 1922 and was the descendant of some of the first early 19th century settlers in Talladega County. Upon graduation from High School, she traveled to New Orleans to attend the Mather School of Nursing at Baptist Hospital from 1940 to 1943. After becoming a Registered Nurse, she enlisted in the military in January 1944 and was deployed in 1945 to the European Theater, serving as part of the 134th Evacuation Hospital, which replaced the 51st Field Hospital, where she was ultimately promoted to 1st Lieutenant, Chief Nurse, and participated in the Rhineland ...
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