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Manjeet Singh Riyat, emergency medicine consultant

21Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Manjeet Singh Riyat, emergency medicine consultant

Manjeet Singh Riyat a British emergency care consultant died, aged 52, at the hospital where he worked, on 20 April 2020. Riyat is described as the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom. After education at the University of Leicester, qualifying in 1992, and training at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County Hospital, he joined Royal Derby Hospital as a consultant in emergency medicine, in 2003. He rose to be head of the emergency department there in 2006, and was chair of the hospital's medical advisory committee and its medical staffing committee. Riyat taught emergency medicine at Derby College. He served as an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine from 2007, becoming lead examiner for their fellowship examinations in 20...

20Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Jacques Rosny, actor

Jacques Rosny a French actor died on 18 April 2020 at the age of 81 in Nogent-sur-Marne due to COVID-19. Rosny married actress Annick Blancheteau in 1971, with whom he had two kids. In 1973, with Jean-Claude Houdinière and Loïc Vollard, Rosny purchased the Théâtre de l'Athénée. He left the theatre the following year.

Claude Lafortune, paper artist, set decorator and TV personality

20Apr

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Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles

Claude Lafortune, paper artist, set decorator and TV personality

Claude Lafortune a Canadian paper artist, set decorator and TV personality died in Longueuil, Quebec, aged 83,died on 19 April 2020,after contracting the COVID-19 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec. A graduate of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, Lafortune collaborated on many graphic design projects before he became famous for his paper art. He had an exhibit devoted to his paper art work—titled Colle, papier, ciseaux—at the Musée des cultures du monde in Nicolet, Quebec. The exhibition has traveled to Longueuil, Montreal, Terrebonne, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Lachine, Chicoutimi, Bonaventure, La Malbaie and New Brunswick.

Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage, diplomat and businessman

19Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, Sweden

Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage, diplomat and businessman

Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage ‑ a Swedish diplomat, banking executive, and political consultant ‑ died at Saint Göran Hospital in Stockholm due to COVID‑19 on 18 April 2020. Belfrage was the son of diplomat Kurt-Allan Belfrage and his wife, Renée France Paule Puaux. His brother, Frank Belfrage, is an economist and diplomat. Belfrage graduated from Stockholm School of Economics in 1970. Belfrage worked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1970 to 1987 as a diplomat in Geneva, Washington, D.C., Bucharest, Beirut, and Paris. In 1987, he became vice president at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and as an adviser to Investor AB. Belfrage also served as an advisor to Peter Wallenberg and the Wallenberg family between 1987 and 2012.

Lobsang Thubten Trinley Yarphel, Tibetian Italian lama

19Apr

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High Profilers, Italy, Profiles

Lobsang Thubten Trinley Yarphel, Tibetian Italian lama

Lobsang Thubten Trinley Yarphel the 5th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche of Tibet died from COVID-19 in Verbania on 18 April 2020, aged 78. He was a Tibetan-Italian lama of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The 5th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche was born in Drakshu, a small remote village which was about 55 kilometers from the city of Shigatse in 1941. His secular name was Wangdu Gyelpo. He was later recognized as the new incarnation Gangchen Sapen-la. He was enthroned at Gangchen Choepeling Monastery [it] at the age of five. When he was twelve years old, he received the “kachen” degree, Tashi Lhunpo's equivalent of the “geshe” degree. Later, he studied medicine, astrology, meditation, and philosophy in Sera Monastery and Tashi Lhunpo Monastery. After the annexation of Tibet by the Peopl...

16Apr

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India, Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Dr Ajit Agarwal, cardiologist

Ajit Agarwal, a cardiologist in the United Kingdom, died on April 15, 2020, due to COVID-19. He was 68. Dr Agarwal died of Covid-19 at a private hospital in the United Kingdom (UK) . A resident of India's Kanpur city, Dr Agarwal was a consultant cardiologist in London and had been in home quarantine for last several days before he was shifted to a hospital where he passed away after his lungs collapsed. Source: Pressreader Please help us in adding details.

14Apr

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India, Medics, Profiles

Dr KM Ismail Hussain, ‘2-rupee doctor’

Dr KM Ismail Hussain succumbed to coronavirus on April 14 Dr KM Ismail Hussain, who was popularly known as ‘2-rupee doctor’ succumbed to coronavirus on April 14, reported The Siasat Daily. Dr Ismail,76, had stopped going to work at his hospital in Kurnool a few weeks ago because of illness. Only after his death it was revealed from his test results that he died of COVID-19. He had been working in a COVID-19 red-zone, reported Siasat’s Rasia Hashmi. According to his friend Shafath Ahmed Khan, he had always been so accessible and popular, that patients who were used to going to him started queuing up outside his house. He would never refuse to see a patient for any reason. So after a week, out of compulsion, he went back to work at the hospital. Shafath, who is an advocate based...

13Apr

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Italy, Medics, Profiles

Dr. Nabil Chrabieh, Physician

Lebanese doctor Nabil Chrabieh (61 years old) died of Coronavirus in the Italian city of Alessandria on April 10. Chrabieh, who hails from the Bikfaya town of Sakiet al-Misk, suffered from Coronavirus symptoms for several days before being transferred to a hospital and passing away there. This as Italy’s main doctors’ association said on Thursday that one hundred Italian doctors have died of the novel Coronavirus since the pandemic reached the country in February. LBC

11Apr

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Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Dr LúciaDantas Abrantes, Physician

Dr Lúcia Dantas Abrantes, a physician in Fortaleza, Brazil, died at the age of 66 due to COVID-19 on April 10. She was against social isolation of the Covid-19 patients. On social media, the doctor had downplayed Covid-19. “There are viruses that are much more potent and that kill a lot more (H1N1 for example) and nobody cares about them. Why so? ” She asked. The posts were deleted after the death of the health professional. Source: Politica Distrital Please help us in adding details.

11Apr

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Ghana, Medics, Profiles

Dr Jacob Plange-Rhule, physician

Jacob Plange-Rhule –a Ghanaian physician, academic, and Rector of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons – died on 10 April 2020 due to Covid-19. At the time of his death, Plange-Rhule was the Head of the Department of Physiology of the School of Medical Sciences in Kumasi, Ghana. He was also a consulting physician at the Department of Medicine of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, where he founded the Hypertension and Renal Clinic and headed it for more than two decades. Plange-Rhule was born on 27 July 1957, in Winneba, Central Region, Ghana. He had his secondary education at the Accra Academy where he completed in 1976 prior to entering the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. ...