Miguel

8May

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Noteworthy, Spain

Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa, geographer

Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa a Spanish geographer, professor of human geography at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) died of COVID-19 on 21 April 2020. He was an expert in cultural tourism and heritage preservation. Born in El Arenal, province of Ávila in 1947, Troitiño earned a licentiate degree in Geography and History from the UCM. He obtained a PhD in Geography in 1979 from the UCM, reading a dissertation on the city of Cuenca, titled Cuenca, la crisis de una vieja ciudad castellana and supervised by Manuel de Terán Álvarez. A lecturer at the UCM since 1973, he obtained a Chair of Human Geography in 1991. During his career, he focused on fields such as tourism, cultural heritage, urban planning and territorial development. A great deal of his scholar productio...

15Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Miguel Ángel Martínez, Nurse

Miguel Ángel Martínez – a Nurse at ISSSTE Regional Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 15 April 2020. Miguel Ángel was a nurse at the ISSSTE Regional Hospital October 1 and was infected by attending to dozens of people with covid-19 every day. He did it without the protection he should because neither he nor his companions have the necessary material. He bought what he could, but it wasn't enough. He was first classified with mild symptoms, so it was enough to isolate himself at home with all the necessary citizens. Source: Telediario Please help us in adding details.

Miguel Angel Giron Guzmán, Emergency Room Director

10Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Miguel Angel Giron Guzmán, Emergency Room Director

Miguel Angel Giron Guzmán – an Emergency Room Director at La Perla General Hospital, Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico – passed away on 9 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Miguel was 60 years old. According to health officials, the doctor did not become infected at the hospital, but had traveled to Cuba in early March for a seminar and began to show symptoms upon his return. Officials claimed the doctor was battling the illness while in house isolation. His case worsened on April 2 and he went into the intensive care unit at the hospital where he worked. He ultimately succumbed to the deadly virus. Source: Breitbart Please help us in adding details.

8Apr

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Miguel Jones, footballer

Miguel Jones Castillo –a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for SD Indautxu and Atlético Madrid during the 1950s and 1960s – passed away due to Covid-19 on 8 April 2020. Although born in Spanish Guinea, now known as Equatorial Guinea, Jones grew up in Bilbao. He began his career with local sides Barakaldo and Indautxu, where his teammates included the veteran Lezama and another emerging young player, Jesús María Pereda. Jones and Pereda, and later a third Indautxu player, José Eulogio Gárate, were all controversially rejected by Athletic Bilbao because the club's signing policy required for them to be born in Biscay; he maintained throughout his life that his rejection was not due to racism, as the other shunn...

7Apr

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Medics

Óscar Miguel Cabrera, Oncologist

Óscar Miguel Cabrera – a Third-Year Oncology Resident, Internet personality on the YoMedico blog at Hospital Eugenio Espejo, Quito, Ecuador – passed away due to COVID-19. It was reported on April 7, 2020. Oscar was 28 years old. "We regret to report that today our colleague Dr. Óscar Cabrera, better known for his page YO MÉDICO and current administrator of this, has passed away. The doctor was R3 in postgraduate oncology in the city of Quito-Ecuador, he was always characterized by his charisma, joy, professionalism and good treatment with all health personnel, "is the message that circulates mainly on the social network Facebook, where condolence comments are already counted by the dozens. Source: Debate Please help us in adding details.