Abdul

17Jul

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Bangladesh, Noteworthy, Profiles

Abdul Hye, social activist

Abdul Hye, younger brother of Bangladesh’s President Abdul Hamid, died of coronavirus at a hospital in the city on July 17, 2020. He was 67. Abdul Hye, also a freedom fighter, breathed his last around 1:15 am at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka. Abdul Hye, also assistant personal secretary to President Abdul Hamid, tested positive for coronavirus on July 2 and the taken to the CMH. He had been on ventilation support from July 12 following deterioration of his health condition. Hye is survived by wife, one son, two daughters and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death. Born in 1953 in Mithamain upazila of Kishoreganj district, Abdul Hye was a commander of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Shangshad, Mithamain. He was also former assistant profes...

Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, United Kingdom

4May

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

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 Abdul Qadir Soomro, physician and dermatologist

6Apr

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Medics, Pakistan, Profiles

Dr Abdul Qadir Soomro, physician and dermatologist

Dr Abdul Qadir Soomro died on April 6 Dr Abdul Qadir Soomro, an eminent physician and dermatologist, died of COVID-19 in isolation while under treatment at Indus Hospital in Karachi on April 6, reported Gulf News. Dr Soomro who contracted the COVID-19 virus was hailed as a hero by the community as he lost his life while treating people suffering from pandemic, GN's Ashfaq Ahmed pointed out. Dr Soomro worked as medical superintendent of the Alkhidmat Hospital in Tharparkar — a remote area in Sindh province. Dr Soomro contracted the virus while treating his patients in the Gulshan-e-Hadeed locality of the city, and when his condition deteriorated, he approached the Indus Hospital Karachi where he tested positive for the viral ailment and was admitted to the isolation ward. At...

4Apr

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Profiles, United Kingdom

Dr. William Frankland

An allergy pioneer who popularized the pollen count, United Kingdom Dr. William Frankland, 108, an allergy pioneer who popularized the pollen count, died from Covid19 in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2020. The pioneering work of Dr Frankland, a British immunologist who transformed the world’s understanding of allergies, included developing the idea of a pollen count to help hay fever sufferers. Dr Frankland, whose medical career spanned 70 years, was known as “the grandfather of allergy”. As a British army doctor in World War Two, he spent three-and-a-half years in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Historian Dan Snow tweeted he would never forget meeting Dr Frankland, who he called “one of the greatest Britons”. Prof Adam Fox, president of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical...