LNJP senior doc dies of Covid in private hospital

◗ THE DOCTOR, a consultant anaesthesiologist, died in the morning at he ICU of Max Smart, a dedicated Covid facility in Saket. Several hundreds of healthcare workers have been infected with Covid till date in Delhi.

A doctor of the city government-run LNJP Hospital died of Covid in the ICU of a private dedicated coronavirus facility here on Sunday, sources said.

The doctor, a consultant anaesthesiologist, died in the morning, they added.

LNJP Hospital is a dedicated Covid facility under the Delhi government.

“He lost the battle today after a valiant fight,” a hospital source said.

Sources said the doctor died in the ICU of Max Smart, a dedicated Covid facility in Saket.

Several hundreds of healthcare workers have been infected with Covid till date in Delhi.

A doctor from Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in Okhla in south Delhi recently died of the novel coronavirus infection.

A 39-year-old doctor from Odisha had died of coronavirus in the ICU of the Delhi governmentrun Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital on June 20.