Liang Wudong ( zh, s=梁武东, p=Liáng Wǔdōng; 14 March 1959 – 25 January 2020)
was a physician at
Xinhua Hospital in
Wuhan,
Hubei, notable for being the first doctor to die from
COVID-19 due to a
nosocomial infection.
Life
Liang was the director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of Hubei Province Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (Xinhua Hospital). He had a history of
arrhythmia
Arrhythmias, also known as cardiac arrhythmias, heart arrhythmias, or dysrhythmias, are irregularities in the heartbeat, including when it is too fast or too slow. A resting heart rate that is too fast – above 100 beats per minute in adults ...
and persistent
atrial fibrillation.
On 16 January 2020, Liang felt unwell and had a high fever and chills. He went to Hubei Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital for treatment and found that
CT scan
A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body. The personnel that perform CT scans are called radiographers ...
showed that the lungs were white and there was obvious symptoms of lung infections. After being contracted with
COVID-19, he was admitted to an isolation ward for hospital treatment, and transferred to
Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital on 18 January to continue treatment.
At 7 a.m. on 25 January, Liang died at the age of 60.
[His age of death by East Asian age reckoning is 62.] On 3 February, the pharmaceutical company Shanxi Zhendong donated 100,000
yuan to Liang Wudong's family, in addition to 2,000 monthly yuan to pay for living expenses, as part of their Benevolent Angel Fund ( zh, s=仁爱天使基金) for families of medical personnel affected by the
COVID-19 pandemic in China
The COVID-19 pandemic in China is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). China was the first country to experience an outbreak of the ...
.
See also
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List of deaths due to COVID-19
Notes
References
1959 births
2020 deaths
Chinese otolaryngologists
Physicians from Hubei
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in China
20th-century Chinese physicians
21st-century Chinese physicians
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