Hyderabad: 70-year-old doctor dies due to COVID-19

Updated Jun 22, 2020 | 18:54 IST

With the growing threat from the novel coronavirus, a 70-year-old doctor died due to the deadly virus in Hyderabad.

A doctor in Hyderabad succumbed to death due to COVID-19. | Photo Credit: AP

The COVID-19 crisis has shellshocked the whole world at present. The cases continue to rise in all parts of the world as the deadly virus, which originated from China, remains a dominant force. In India, the metro cities are facing an adverse effect as well due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Cities like Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, etc. have seen a huge spike in the number of positive cases. The cases have also risen following the Unlock 1.0. On Sunday (June 21), a general practitioner, who used to run clinics in Khairatabad and Jiyaguda areas in the city of Hyderabad, died of coronavirus infection.

The 70-year-old general practitioner, thus, also became the first doctor to have succumbed to death owing to the spread of the Covid-19 in the state. The senior citizen was admitted to a private hospital a few days ago after there were severe symptoms of Covid-19 found. To make matters worse, he was also suffering from hypertension, which deteriorated his condition to an extent.

Further, the deceased was a member of the Indian Medical Association’s Hyderabad city branch. He had met one of his old patients who was admitted to a hospital in Kachiguda last week. Following that, he was diagnosed with a high fever. He had stopped seeing patients in a bid to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus from his end.