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Senior doctor dies of coronavirus in Peshawar

By APP
December 03, 2020

PESHAWAR: Owing to the increasing number of positive coronavirus cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one more senior doctor died after complications of disease here in Peshawar on Wednesday.

Additional Director, Khalifa Gul Nawaz Hospital, Bannu, Dr Muhammad Farooq was infected with coronavirus few weeks ago and was put on ventilator in the private hospital in Peshawar.

Provincial Doctors Association, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa paying tribute to Dr.

Muhammad Farooq said that so far 25 doctors and 40 other health staff members have died of coronavirus.

Association said that senior clerk of Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, Shoukat Hussain also died of coronavirus.