A doctor from new York Lorna Breen, who had treated patients with COVID-19 and had herself committed suicide. It is reported by The New York Times.
49-year-old Lorna Breen was the head of the emergency Department at the hospital of Allen and worked at the Medical center of Columbia University.
According to the father of the deceased Philip Breen, the daughter told how her colleagues fell asleep in the corridors after 18-hour shifts, and the patients died before they were able to get out of their ambulances.
“She was really in the trenches on the front line,” said Philip Breen of The New York Times.
Infected with coronavirus, Lorna Breen and a half weeks spent at home, and then went back to work, but are unable to finish a 12-hour shift. It again sent home.
Then she went to Virginia to see my family. There she was hospitalized with exhaustion. Lorna Byrne was in the hospital for about a week, then lived with his mother and sister. 26 April at my sister’s house she committed suicide. It tried to rescue, but did not.
Philip Breen says that the daughter was not mental disorders. During the last telephone conversation she seemed distant, and he felt something was wrong.
“She was trying to do his job, and it killed her,” said Breen.
As reported by “the Rambler”, the number of cases of infection with coronavirus in the United States exceeded one million people. Victims of the epidemic were more than 60 thousand people. Most of the coronavirus injured new York- a city of more than 18 thousand victims.
