Ibn Sina doctor dies with Covid-19 infection

One more doctor has died with coronavirus infection at a hospital in capital Dhaka Tuesday night, rising the death casualties of frontline doctors in the lethal virus to 3.

Maj (retd) Abul Mokarim Md Mohsin Uddin, chief consultant (radiology) of Ibn Sina Diagnostic and Imaging Centre, tested positive for Covid-19 and was admitted to Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka a week ago.

He breathed his last around 11:20pm on Tuesday, according to Ibn Sina sources.

Prof Mokarim, a freedom fighter, was infected while discharging duties at the hospital, citing hospital sources the Daily Star reported. 

This Ibn Sina doctor also earned a huge popularity for his acting in a television advertisement for the hospital where his dialogue "Ozotha Barti Kharos Kano Korben?" [Why do you spend extra?] became very popular among the mass people that also helped the hospital to cover more people. 

With Mokarim, three doctors died with coronavirus infection so far.

On April 15, Dr Md Moyeen Uddin, an assistant professor of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, died at Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka while Hematologist Prof Col (retd) Md Moniruzzaman of Anwar Khan Modern Medical College Hospital died on May 3.

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