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KFH lab specialist dies of MERS
Last updated: Monday, May 05, 2014 12:07 AM
Mohammad Dawood
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH ? King Fahd Hospital has registered its first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) death as one of its healthcare workers succumbed to the coronavirus.
This is the second fatality from the virus in a Ministry of Health hospital.
Laboratory specialist at King Fahd Hospital Ayman Seemi and nurse at King Abdulaziz Hospital Bandar Al-Katheeri are the two healthcare workers who died of MERS at government hospitals.
Seemi?s nephew Wadei said his uncle suffered from high temperature and visited a private hospital where doctors conducted tests and diagnosed him with dengue fever. He was given the necessary treatment and sent home, as doctors did not believe his condition required hospitalization. Three days later, his uncle?s wife informed him that his condition had worsened, and he was shivering due to high temperature, coughing and had diarrhea.
Wadei rushed his uncle back to the same private hospital where doctors admitted him to the intensive care unit and was given antibiotics, but his condition did not improve.
?We had doubts that my uncle had MERS, and we notified King Fahd Hospital. They responded immediately and sent a medical team which took blood samples which proved that my uncle was indeed infected with MERS,? he said.
Wadei said his uncle remained in the intensive care for two weeks with no noticeable improvement, until he suffered a heart attack and all attempts to revive his heart failed...
KFH lab specialist dies of MERS
Last updated: Monday, May 05, 2014 12:07 AM
Mohammad Dawood
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH ? King Fahd Hospital has registered its first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) death as one of its healthcare workers succumbed to the coronavirus.
This is the second fatality from the virus in a Ministry of Health hospital.
Laboratory specialist at King Fahd Hospital Ayman Seemi and nurse at King Abdulaziz Hospital Bandar Al-Katheeri are the two healthcare workers who died of MERS at government hospitals.
Seemi?s nephew Wadei said his uncle suffered from high temperature and visited a private hospital where doctors conducted tests and diagnosed him with dengue fever. He was given the necessary treatment and sent home, as doctors did not believe his condition required hospitalization. Three days later, his uncle?s wife informed him that his condition had worsened, and he was shivering due to high temperature, coughing and had diarrhea.
Wadei rushed his uncle back to the same private hospital where doctors admitted him to the intensive care unit and was given antibiotics, but his condition did not improve.
?We had doubts that my uncle had MERS, and we notified King Fahd Hospital. They responded immediately and sent a medical team which took blood samples which proved that my uncle was indeed infected with MERS,? he said.
Wadei said his uncle remained in the intensive care for two weeks with no noticeable improvement, until he suffered a heart attack and all attempts to revive his heart failed...