Indian dentist in Kuwait dies due to coronavirus
An Indian dentist in Kuwait has passed away due to the novel COVID-19, becoming the country's second medical professional to succumb to the coronavirus, according to a media report.
He has been identified as Dr. Vasudeva Rao, 54. He died on Saturday in Jaber hospital where he was undergoing treatment for the coronavirus infection, timeskuwait.com reported. Vasudeva Rao was a resident of Kuwait for 15 years who worked as an endodontist at Kuwait Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, a government-owned company.
He was a member of the Indian Dentists' Alliance in Kuwait, an organisation of the Indian dental professionals in Kuwait. Likewise, the organisation mourned his loss. On Friday, an Egyptian ENT specialist Tareq Hussain Mokheimer died due to coronavirus, becoming Kuwait's first such medical fatality, the Gulf News reported.
Tareq Hussain Mokheimer, 62, had worked in Kuwait for more than 20 years. Recently, a total of 171 people arrived in Chennai from Kuwait on Sunday as part of the government's Vande Bharat Mission to bring home the Indian nationals stranded abroad.
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Kuwait has so far reported 58 deaths and 8,688 infections due to coronavirus. Meanwhile, the death toll due to coronavirus has gone up to 282,727 with over 4 million infections reported so far, according to Johns Hopkins University tally.
-PTC News
