British-Bangladeshi doctor dies of coronavirus

A British-Bangladeshi hospital consultant in London has died from the coronavirus infection.

Abdul MabudChowdhury, a consultant urologist at Homerton hospital in Hackney in east London, died after spending 15 days in Queens Hospital.

Last month, he pleaded to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for more personal protective equipment for frontline staff.

He wrote a Facebook message to Johnson detailing the urgent need for PPE for frontline staff and asking that testing of healthcare workers be fast-tracked. “Dear and respectable Prime Minister Mr Boris Johnson, Please ensure urgently PPE for each and every NHS health worker," he wrote, adding that healthcare workers "are in direct contact with patients" and have a "human right like others to live in this world disease-free with our family and children”.
Chowdhury, 53, was born in Bangladesh.

 

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