A fundraising campaign for the family of a Southmead Hospital doctor who died from Covid-19 has raised more than £122,000. Dr Gamal Osman treated hundreds of Covid patients at the hospital, but caught the virus himself and died on January 28 after battling the virus in intensive care. Dr Osman, who was locum consultant based at Southmead, caught the virus in November, just three weeks before vaccinations began for frontline NHS staff. A fundraiser set up by his colleagues to help his wife Manal and seven children has raised more than £122,000. Doctors Prashanth Mamilla, Kiaran Flanagan and other colleagues from the Acute Medical Team described him as generous, calm and extremely popular .
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image captionDr Osman was a locum consultant at Southmead Hospital
A fundraising campaign for the family of a hospital doctor who died from Covid-19 has raised more than £118,000.
Dr Gamal Osman died on 28 January after battling the virus in intensive care.
The locum consultant based at Southmead Hospital, Bristol caught the virus in November three weeks before vaccinations began for frontline NHS staff.
The fundraiser said Dr Osman was the sole breadwinner with seven children aged from seven to 26. Extremely popular
Since the appeal began on 28 January, some 2,600 people have donated more than £118,000 in total.
The 63-year-old was based in Acute Medicine at Southmead for two years and had worked in hospitals in Liverpool and Birmingham.
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