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Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 12:43 AM Feb 2020

Liu Zhiming, head of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, dies of coronavirus; Jingzhou woman dies of overwork

BREAKING: Liu Zhiming, the head of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, has died of coronavirus




Also,


Health official in Jingzhou, a city in Hubei province, dies of heart failure caused by overwork, according to local media. She had been working non-stop for 25 days to help in the fight against coronavirus.




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Liu Zhiming, head of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, dies of coronavirus; Jingzhou woman dies of overwork (Original Post) Leghorn21 Feb 2020 OP
:( sakabatou Feb 2020 #1
sakabatou, I came back to add this...he was only 50 or 51 Leghorn21 Feb 2020 #2
Both victims on the front line fighting against this disease lunasun Feb 2020 #3
... SunSeeker Feb 2020 #4
Very sad. smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #5
Tragic. They made such a sacrifice. Stunned at their selflessness. emmaverybo Feb 2020 #6
RIP Hekate Feb 2020 #7
... Talitha Feb 2020 #8
Martyrs to a world increasingly run by selfish Nationalist narcissists who refuse to work together hlthe2b Feb 2020 #9
That overwork thing is actually more deadly than the coronavirus ck4829 Feb 2020 #10

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
2. sakabatou, I came back to add this...he was only 50 or 51
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 12:48 AM
Feb 2020
How old was he/she? Did they have any lung conditions prior to infection? These are some of the questions that we need to ask.


Dr. Liu Zhiming was born in 1969, so he was 50 or 51 years old. We haven't heard anything about underlying health issues.






hlthe2b

(102,197 posts)
9. Martyrs to a world increasingly run by selfish Nationalist narcissists who refuse to work together
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 08:38 AM
Feb 2020

to solve these emerging problems.

Some of us WILL remember.

ck4829

(35,042 posts)
10. That overwork thing is actually more deadly than the coronavirus
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 08:42 AM
Feb 2020

Thousands upon thousands die each year from overwork in China

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