{"id":1052,"date":"2020-01-26T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:06:08","slug":"dr-liang-wudong-physician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Dr Liang Wudong, physician"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr Liang Wudong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dr Liang Wudong, a 60-year-old physician at Xinhua Hospital in Hubei, was the first doctor to die from the COVID-19 pandemic due to nosocomial infection. He died on January 25, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liang was the director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of Hubei Province Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (Xinhua Hospital).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had a history of arrhythmia and persistent atrial fibrillation. On 16 January 2020, Liang felt unwell and had a high fever and chills. He went to Hubei Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital for treatment and found that CT scan showed that the lungs were white and there was obvious symptoms of lung infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After being diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019, he was admitted to an isolation ward for hospital treatment, and transferred to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital on 18 January 2020 to continue treatment. At 7 am on 25 January 2020, Liang died at the age of 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 3 February, Shanxi Zhendong Group Renai Angel Fund donated 100,000 yuan to Liang Wudong’s family and donated 2,000 yuan for living expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Liang Wudong, a 60-year-old physician at Xinhua Hospital in Hubei, was the first doctor to die from the COVID-19 pandemic due to nosocomial infection. He died on January 25, 2020 Liang was the director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of Hubei Province Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (Xinhua Hospital). He had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10,48,7019],"tags":[686,5684,145,5695,5685],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Liang-Wudong.jpg?fit=615%2C409&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2778,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2778","url_meta":{"origin":1052,"position":0},"title":"Dr Lin Zhengbin, physician","date":"February 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr Lin Zhengbin \u2013a Chinese physician and organ transplant expert at Wuhan Tongji Hospital \u2013 died from Covid-19 on 10 February 2020. \u00a0 Lin graduated from Tongji Medical College in 1987, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine. 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