MDs have died "On Active Service"
Most famous in Canada was Surgeon NORMAN BETHUNE Pulm.TB & "Blood Poisoning."
GP Nestor Santiago YANGA MD (U.Santo Tomas 1975) Died from SARS in Toronto 2003.
Ont.Ministry Health only provided N95 masks. Not N100 or HEPA-filter respirators.
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CBC
Dr. Nestor Yanga has become the first North American doctor to die of SARS.
Yanga, 54, worked at a family clinic in Toronto and had been sick with SARS for the past 19 weeks. He became ill after treating a patient with the illness.
He was admitted to Sunnybrook Hospital on April 8 and was kept in the intensive care unit for four months,
Yanga is the 44th person to die of SARS in the Toronto area. The disease has now killed three heath-care workers: two nurses and Yanga.
(Comment Estate of Nurses received payment from Ont.Govt. Estate of Dr.Yanga received nothing as considered "self-employed'.)
Dr. Nestor Yanga has become the first North American doctor to die of SARS.
Yanga, 54, worked at a family clinic in Toronto and had been sick with SARS for the past 19 weeks. He became ill after treating a patient with the illness.
He was admitted to Sunnybrook Hospital on April 8 and was kept in the intensive care unit for four months,
Yanga is the 44th person to die of SARS in the Toronto area. The disease has now killed three heath-care workers: two nurses and Yanga.
(Comment Estate of Nurses received payment from Ont.Govt. Estate of Dr.Yanga received nothing as considered "self-employed'.)
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