Liang Wudong Explained

Liang Wudong
Birth Date:14 March 1959
Birth Place:China
Death Place:Wuhan, Hubei, China
Death Cause:COVID-19
Occupation:Physician
Known For:Being the first doctor to die from COVID-19

Liang Wudong (Chinese: s=梁武东|p=Liáng Wǔdōng; 14 March 1959 – 25 January 2020)[1] 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.[2]

Life

Liang was the director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of Hubei Province Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (Xinhua Hospital).[3] He had a history of arrhythmia 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 showed that the lungs were white and there was obvious symptoms of lung infections.[4] 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.[5] 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 (Chinese: s=仁爱天使基金) for families of medical personnel affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in China.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Chen . Hongxia . 25 January 2020 . zh-hans . 感染新型肺炎去世的医生梁武东为新华医院退休职工 . Liang Wudong, the doctor who died of the novel pneumonia contagion, was a retired employee of Xinhua Hospital . 21 Finance . . https://web.archive.org/web/20200217004602/https://m.21jingji.com/article/20200125/herald/533d8b3cdb540960132a1d968b9f1aa1.html . 17 February 2020 . live.
  2. News: Guli . 25 January 2020 . zh-hans . 武汉医院告急 第一名医生殉职 中国军医团抵达增援 . Wuhan hospital sends out distress signal: first doctor dies in the line of duty, Chinese military medical corps arrive to reinforce . . https://web.archive.org/web/20200125184916/https://www.rfi.fr/cn/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20200125-%E6%AD%A6%E6%B1%89%E5%8C%BB%E9%99%A2%E5%91%8A%E6%80%A5-%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E5%90%8D%E5%8C%BB%E7%94%9F%E6%AE%89%E8%81%8C-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%86%9B%E5%8C%BB%E5%9B%A2%E6%8A%B5%E8%BE%BE%E5%A2%9E%E6%8F%B4 . 25 January 2020 . live.
  3. News: Zhan . Lingyu . 25 January 2020 . zh-hant . 武漢肺炎首位醫師殉職 62歲耳鼻喉科主任梁武東今晨不治 . Head physician dies from Wuhan pneumonia [COVID-19]: Liang Wudong, head of otorhinolaryngology, succumbs to illness this morning at the age of 62 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20210718064728/https://www.nownews.com/news/3903392 . 18 July 2021 . live.
  4. News: Zhang Xiangyu . zh-hans . 封面报道之一｜现场篇：武汉围城 . Cover Story One On-site: Wuhan Siege . Caixin Weekly . 4 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200208185526/http://weekly.caixin.com/2020-02-01/101510145.html . 8 February 2020 . live . subscription.
  5. His age of death by East Asian age reckoning is 62.
  6. News: 7 February 2020 . zh-hans . 病毒无情，"天使"有爱，长江日报联合救助基金守护医护家庭 . Merciless virus, loving "angels": Yangtze Daily joint relief fund safeguards families of medical personnel . Yangtze Network . https://web.archive.org/web/20200222151649/http://news.cjn.cn/sywh/202002/t3557480.htm . 22 February 2020 . dead.

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