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PML Daily CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Some of health workers who have so far succumbed to the virus

TEDDY TRACY NAYIGA | PML Daily Staff WriterbyTEDDY TRACY NAYIGA | PML Daily Staff Writer
April 5, 2020
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Li Wenliang was a Chinese ophthalmologist who worked as a physician at Wuhan Central Hospital. Li warned his colleagues in December 2019 about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome, later acknowledged as COVID-19 (PHOTO/File).

ROME – As front-line healthcare workers care for patients with COVID-19, they commit themselves to difficult, draining work and also put themselves at risk of infection. More than 100 throughout the world are said to have died.

Amongst the deceased was Li Wenliang, a Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warning about the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

Dr Li contracted the virus while working at Wuhan Central Hospital.

He had sent out a warning to fellow medics on 30 December but police told him to stop “making false comments”.

Dr Li, an ophthalmologist, posted his story on Weibo from a hospital bed a month after sending out his initial warning.

The 34-year-old had noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars – the virus that led to a global epidemic in 2003.

On 30 December he sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them to wear protective clothing to avoid infection.

Four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter. In the letter he was accused of “making false comments” that had “severely disturbed the social order”.

He was one of eight people who police said were being investigated for “spreading rumours” Local authorities later apologised to Dr Li.

In his Weibo post he describes how on 10 January he started coughing, the next day he had a fever and two days later he was in hospital. He was diagnosed with the coronavirus on 30 January.

Other health workers who have succumbed to the virus

Abdullah Abbasi, age unknown, Infectious Disease Specialist, Gorgan, Iran

Luigi Ablondi, 66, Epidemiologist, Former General Manager of the Crema Hospital, Cremona, Italy

Abdel Sattar Airoud, 74, General Practitioner, Piacenza, Italy

Vincenza Amato, 65, Medical Director Responsible UOS Hygiene Public Health of the Department of Hygiene and Health Prevention, Bergamo, Italy

Larrice Anderson, 46, Nurse, New Orleans East Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana

Malik Ashtar, 50, Nursing Staff, Gilgit, Pakistan

Gaetano Autore, 68, General Practitioner, Naples, Italy

Madhvi Aya, 61, Physician Assistant, Emergency Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York

Israel Bactol, 34, Cardiologist,  Philippine Heart Center, Metro Manila, Philippines

Domenico Bardelli, 75, Dentist, Lodi, Italy

Manuel Barragan, 63,  General Practitioner, Cordoba, Spain

Diego Bianco, 47, Paramedic,  Lombardy, Italy

Jean-Marie Boegle, 66, OBGYN, Mulhouse, France

Massimo Borghese, 63, Specialist in Otolaryngology and Phoniatrics, Naples, Italy

Giuseppe Borghi, 64, General Practitioner, Lodi, Italy

Araceli Buendia Ilagan, 63, ICU nurse, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami

Antonio Buonomo, 65, Medical Examiner, Naples, Italy

Antonino Buttafuoco, 66, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy

Mario Calonghi, 55, Dentist, Brescia, Italy

Giulio Calvi, 72, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy

Andrea Carli, 69, General Practitioner, Lodi, Italy

Ricardo Castaneda, 64,  Psychiatrist, New York City

Marino Chiodi, 70, Ophthalmologist, Bergamo, Italy

Marcello Cifola, age unknown, Otolaryngologist, Italy

Aurelio Maria Comelli, 69, Cardiologist, Bergamo, Italy

Benedetto Comotti, 74, Hematologist, Bergamo, Italy

Francesco Dall’Antonia, 82, Former Primary of Surgery I of Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy

Jeannie Danker, 60, Director of Radiology, OSU Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio

Siamak Dayushli, age unknown, Pediatrician, Bandar-e Anzali, Iran

Francesco De Alberti, died on March 28, 2020; Former OMCeO President, Lecco, Italy

Francesco De Francesco, 82, Retired, Former Hospital Doctor, Sculptor and Painter, Bergamo, Italy

Domenico De Gilio, 66, General Practitioner, Lecco, Italy

Amged el-Hawrani, 55, Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist, Queen’s Hospital Burton, Derbyshire, UK

Adil el-Tayar, 63, Transplant Surgeon, Isleworth, west London, UK.

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