Medscape has published a list of healthcare workers who lost their lives, while caring for patients with COVID-19. Amidst a global shortage of appropriate protective gears, the risk of infection is very high for those on the frontline fighting coronavirus.
I decided to republish this list on my blog, out of respect to my collaegues around the globe, as not many have access to the original article. I believe it is subscription only.
Please join me in honouring their names by sharing this post.
RIP heroes
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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
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Domenico Bardelli, 75, Dentist, Lodi, Italy
Manuel Barragan, 63, General Practitioner, Cordoba, Spain
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
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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, New York
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
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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
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
Walberto Reyes de la Cruz, Urologist, Monclova, Mexico
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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
Ahmed el-Lawah, 50, Professor of Clinical Pathology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Raul Garcia Espinoza, 53, Nurse, Centro Medico La Raza, Mexico City, Mexico
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Gino Fasoli, 73, Retired General Practitioner, Brescia, Italy
Giuseppe Finzi, 62, Hematologist and Contract Professor of Vascular Diseases at the University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Anna Maria Focarete, 69, Provincial Councilor FIMMG, SIMG President and Former Councilor Prov. of the Medici, Lecco, Italy
Francesco Foltrani, 67, General Practitioner, Macerata, Italy
Giovanni Francesconi, 90, General Practitioner, Brescia, Italy
Luigi Frusciante, 71, General Practitioner, Como, Italy
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Frank Gabrin, 60, Emergency Medicine Physician, New York, New York, United States
Bruna Galavotti, 86, Psychiatrist, Dean of the Women’s Medical Association of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Maurizio Galderisi, 65, Cardiologist, Professor of Internal Medicine at the Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Franco Galli, 65, General Practitioner, Mantua, Italy
Ivano Garzena, 48, Dentist, Turin, Italy
Rosario Vittorio Gentile, 67, General Practitioner, Specialist in Allergology and Hematology, Cremona, Italy
Calogero Giabbarrasi, 68, General Practitioner, Caltanissetta, Italy
Raffaele Giura, 80, Pneumologist, Como, Italy
Mario Giovita, 65, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
James T. Goodrich, 73, Neurosurgeon, Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Health System, Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States
Renzo Granata, 68, General Practitioner, Alessandria, Italy
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Capt. Douglas Linn Hickok (US Army), 57, Physician Assistant, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Alex Hsu, 67, Internal Medicine, Northwest Medical Center, Margate, Florida, United States
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Jiang Xueqing, 55, Head of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan, China
Norman Jones, 72, Cardiologist, Former Cardiology Chief of the Trabattoni-Ronzoni Rehabilitation Center in Seregno, Como, Italy
Raffaele Jura, 79, Former head of the Pneumology department, Como, Italy
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Kious Kelly, 48, ER Nurse at Mount Sinai West, New York, New York, United States
Narges Khanalizadeh, 25, Nurse, Milad Lahijan Hospital, Lahijan, Iran
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Giuseppe Lanati, 73, Pulmonologist, Como, Italy
Michele Lauriola, 67, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
Vincenzo Leone, 65, General Practitioner, Vice President of SNAMI, Bergamo, Italy
Marco Lera, 68, Dentist, Lucca, Italy
Li Wenliang, 33, Ophthalmologist, Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan, China
Liu Fan, 59, Nurse, Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, China
Liu Zhiming, 51, Director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, China
Gabriele Lombardi, 68, Dentist, Brescia, Italy
Sara Bravo López, 28, General Practitioner, Cuenca, Spain
Roberto Mario Lovotti, 69, General Practitioner, Milan, Italy
Piero Lucarelli, 74, Anesthesiologist, Bergamo, Italy
Rosario Lupo, 65, Medical Examiner, Manager of the INPS Legal Medical Center of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
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Antonio Maghernino, 59, Medical Continuity Doctor, Foggia, Italy
Giuseppe Maini, 74, General Practitioner, Piacenza, Italy
Abdulghani Taki Makki, 78, Dentist, Italy
Leonardo Marchi, 65, Infectious Disease Doctor, Medical Director of the San Camillo Nursing Home, Cremona, Italy
Arturo Olvera Martínez, Physician, age unknown, Hidalgo, Mexico
Julián Santos-Gonzalez Martinez, 64, Secretary of Medicine, College Albacete, Albacete, Spain
Mei Zhongming, 57, Ophthalmologist, Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan, China
Ivan Mauri, 69, General practitioner, Lecco, Italy
Roberto Mileti, 59, Gynecologist, Rome, Italy
Isabel Muñoz, 59, General practitioner, Salamanca, Spain
John F Murray, 92, Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
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Marcello Natali, 56, General Practitioner, Secretary of the Federation of General Practitioners of Lodi, Lodi, Italy
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Freda Ocran, 50, Psychiatric Nurse, Jacobi Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
José Manuel Sanchez Ortega, age unknown, General Surgery, Barcelona, Spain
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Carlo Alberto Passera, 62, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
Tomas Pattugalan, 70, Internal Medicine Physician, Queens, New York
Peng Yinhua, 29, Respiratory doctor, First People’s Hospital of Jiangxia District, Wuhan, China
Dino Pesce, 74, Internist Physician, Former general physician at the Villa Scassi hospital in Sampierdarena, Genoa, Italy
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Mahen Ramloll, 70, General Practitioner, France
Jean-Jacques Razafindranazy, 67, Emergency Doctor, Lille, France
Mark Respler, 66, Urologist, Brooklyn, New York
Leandro Resurreccion III, 57, Pediatric Transplant Surgeon, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, the Philippines
Gualberto Reyes, 45, Emergency Medicine Physician, Mexico
Usama Riaz, 26, Physician, Gilgit, Pakistan
Guido Riva, 78, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
Luigi Rocca, 93, Pediatrician, Piacenza, Italy
Flavio Roncoli, 89, Retired, Bergamo, Italy
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Alfa Saadu, 68, Former Medical Director, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Essex and Ealing NHS Trust, Harlow, UK
Mario Luigi Salerno, 68, Physiatrist, Bari, Italy
Usman Sani, 48, Pathologist, Malaysia
Jose Ramon Izquierdo Sanz, 61, General Practitioner, Cuenca, Spain
Gianpaolo Sbardolini, age unknown, General Practitioner, Italy
Olivier-Jacques Schneller, 68, General Practitioner, Trévenans, France
Marino Signori, age unknown, Occupational Physician, Italy
Song Yingjie, 28, Hospital Pharmacist, Wuhan, China
Manfredo Squeri, 75, Former hospital physician, currently head of the Medicine department in the Piccole Figlie di Parma Nursing Home affiliated with SSN, Parma, Italy
Roberto Stella, 57, General Practitioner, Varese, Italy
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Valter Tarantini, 71, Gynecologist, Forlì Cesena, Italy
Giulio Titta, 73, General Practitioner, Former secretary of FIMMG, Turin, Italy
Gaetana Trimarchi, 57, General Practitioner, Messina, Italy
Israel Tolentino, 33, Emergency Medical Technician, Passaic, New Jersey
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Marcello Ugolini, 70, Pulmonologist, Councilor of the Medical Association, Pesaro Urbino, Italy
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Ivano Vezzulli, 61, General Practitioner, Sports Physician, Lodi, Italy
Denis Vincent, 62, Dentist, North Vancouver, Canada
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Wang Tucheng, 27, Doctor, Henan’s Xinwangzhuang village, China
Sylvain Welling, 60, General Practitioner, France
Diedre Wilkes, 42, Mammogram Technician, Piedmont Newnan Hospital, Newnan, Georgia
Judy Wilson-Griffin, Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Leone Marco Wischkin, 71, Internist, Pesaro Urbino, Italy
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Xia Sisi, 29, Gastroenterologist, Union Jiangbei Hospital, Wuhan, China
Xu Hui, 51, Leader of a hospital’s virus control group, Nanjing, China
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Habib Zaidi, 76, General Practitioner, Eastwood Group Practice, Leigh-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Carlo Zavaritt, 80, Pediatrician and Child Neuropsychiatrist, Bergamo, Italy
Anonymous
Anonymous Healthcare Employee, 48, Donalsonville Hospital, Donalsonville, Georgia
Anonymous Prison Doctor, died on March 26, 2020; Foggia, Italy