KP loses 41st doctor to coronavirus
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January 2, 2021
PESHAWAR: Coronavirus on Friday claimed the life of another doctor in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, taking the number of medics losing lives to the viral infection to 41 in the province. The latest victim of the deadly virus was Dr Fahad Liaqat. He was young and healthy but had recently contracted the viral infection. He was admitted to a private hospital in Peshawar but lost the battle for life there. Dr Liaqat Fahad was working as District Surveillance Officer in the anti-polio programme in the Khyber tribal district. He belonged to Tor Dher village in Swabi district. His funeral prayer was offered in his native village at 11 am on Friday and he was laid to rest at the family graveyard. It was only a few days ago when a senior woman radiologist, Dr Khowla Jabeen, died of coronavirus in Peshawar. She had spent almost a month in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Hayatabad Medical Complex. He husband, Dr Iqrar Hussain Zaidi,
After husband, lady doctor also dies of virus
She was laid to rest in Peshawar around 6 o’clock in the evening on Wednesday
Dr Khula Jabeen. PHOTO: FILE
PESHAWAR:
Another doctor fell victim to the Covid-19 in the K-P pushing the total number of doctor died in the pandemic across the province so far to 41. Two medical students have also lost their lives to the deadly Coronavirus.
Lady Doctor Khula Jabeen is the latest victim who also lost her husband Dr Iqrar Hussain Zaidi on December 4 due to Covid.
She graduated from Khyber Medical College in the year 1982 and had a specialization in radiology. Currently she was working in a hospital in University Town. She had been admitted to the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) a month ago and had been on ventilator ever since. On Wednesday she breathed her last after battling for life almost for a month.
PESHAWAR: The Provincial Doctors Association has expressed concern over increasing deaths of doctors due to Covid-19 and demanded Shuhada package for heirs of all the 62 health professionals, including 39 doctors, who laid their lives while saving other patients.
As the province’s death toll from coronavirus reached 1,638 with 11 new fatalities and 58,379 incidences with 397 fresh cases on Wednesday, PDA said that Dr Hola, a senior radiologist, died of Covid-19 on Tuesday and her husband Prof Dr Syed Iqrar Hussain Zaidi on Dec 4.
In a letter to KP secretary health, PDA chairman Dr Amir Taj Khan said the provincial cabinet on April 30 had approved Shuhada package for the families of martyred doctors which hadn’t been implemented so far.
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Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), also known as novel coronavirus, isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/Handout via REUTERS
PESHAWAR:
The toll the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is having on medics in the province refuses to subside after another medical practitioner succumbed to the pandemic virus on Saturday.
This has raised the total number of doctors who have died from the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) to 38 while some 58 medical staff have perished so far.
Peshawar
December 20, 2020
PESHAWAR: The coronavirus on Saturday claimed 15 more lives, including a doctor, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, taking the death toll from the fatal disease to 1536 and the number of doctors, who have died of the infectious disease, has jumped to 38 in the province.
This is the highest number of people who have died of coronavirus in the province in the second wave of coronavirus pandemic.
Among the dead was a one-year baby child, Bisma, who died of coronavirus.
According to Farhad Khan, media manager of the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), a one-year baby girl was brought to them two weeks ago with multiple health complications. He said the baby was diagnosed with coronavirus and was kept in an isolation room. She was shifted to the children ward after her PCR report was declared negative, where she died on Saturday. She was probably the first child who died of coronavirus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She belonged to Nowshera district.