{"id":6512,"date":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=6512","title":{"rendered":"Luis Bitar Mahuad, Plastic Surgeon"},"content":{"rendered":" <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Ecuador_flag.jpg?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <p><p>Luis Bitar Mahuad &ndash; a Plastic Surgeon, Founder of Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Cirug&iacute;a Pl&aacute;stica Reconstructiva y Est&eacute;tica, Judo Instructor at Hospital Luis Vernaza, Guayaquil, Ecuador &ndash; passed away on 13 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Luis was 82 years old.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He was considered one of the pioneers in the sport of judo in Ecuador. He was a founding member of the Ecuadorian Society of Aesthetic Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery, Guayas chapter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He died in Guayaquil of a heart attack after a dialysis session, during the Ecuadorian quarantine due to the health crisis due to the coronavirus disease pandemic, on April 13, 2020, at the age of 82 years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luis_Bitar_Mahuad\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?page_id=303\" target=\"_blank\">Please help us in adding details.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p><p><\/p>\n \n \n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Bitar Mahuad &ndash; a Plastic Surgeon, Founder of Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Cirug&iacute;a Pl&aacute;stica Reconstructiva y Est&eacute;tica, Judo Instructor at Hospital Luis Vernaza, Guayaquil, Ecuador &ndash; passed away on 13 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Luis was 82 years old. He was considered one of the pioneers in the sport of judo in Ecuador. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[7025,1051,114,5746,113,792,6710,6445,7026,6709,1042,6224,6621,5604,6434,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Ecuador_flag.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7414,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=7414","url_meta":{"origin":6512,"position":0},"title":"Zoilo Marcelo Cruz Espinoza, General Practitioner","date":"May 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Zoilo Marcelo Cruz Espinoza \u2013 a General Practitioner, University Professor at Hospital Le\u00f3n Becerra, Guayaquil, Ecuador \u2013 passed away after suffering from COVID-19. 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