Sylhet physician dies of ‘COVID-19’ in Dhaka

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Sylhet physician dies of ‘COVID-19’ in Dhaka

A physician of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital died of COVID-19 at a Dhaka hospital on Wednesday.

Moyeen Uddin, assistant professor of the medicine department of MAG Osmani Medical College, breathed his last at Kurmitola General Hospital around 6:45am, said Ihteshamul Haque Chowdhury Dulal, general secretary of Bangladesh Medical Association.

Moyeen Uddin tested positive fo coronavirus on April 5 as the first case of COVID-19 in the district, Ihteshamul said.

He had been taking treatment staying in quarantine at his home. His family were also quarantined and Housing Estate area where he had been living brought was under lockdown.

The physician was taken to the isolation unit of Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital in Sylhet on April 7 and later sent to Dhaka the following day.