The Irish family of the first frontline medic to die in the UK’s coronavirus outbreak are “devastated” at his loss, his Co Carlow-based brother-in-law has said. Mr El-Hawrani (55) met his Irish wife Pamela Foley while at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RSCI) in Dublin. Dr Antonia Lehane, president of RCSI’s medical graduates’ association, said Mr El-Hawrani, who graduated from the Dublin medical school in 1993, was “an exceptional person”. Mr El-Hawrani’s colleagues at Queen’s Hospital in Burton in the east midlands in England where he worked paid tribute to him with a minute’s silence in his honour at the weekend. We don’t know how many patients he was exposed to,” Mr El-Hawrani told the BBC.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2020 11:15 UTC