A high profile medic in New York City who was on the front line of the US fight against coronavirus has taken her own life.
Dr Lorna Breen as she was officially called was medical director for the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan.
According to police report, she died of self-inflicted injuries on Sunday, police said.
The 49-year-old’s father, Dr Philip Breen, told the media that “She tried to do her job and it killed her.”
The elder Dr Breen said his daughter had had no history of mental illness.
She died in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she had been staying with her family.
Lorna Breen herself had fallen ill with the coronavirus during the course of her work and returned to the job after about a week-and-a-half of recuperating, said her father.
The hospital had sent her home again, before her family “intervened” to bring her to Charlottesville, said her father.
He said that when they last spoke, his daughter had seemed “detached” and told him how Covid-19 patients were dying before they could even be removed from ambulances.
Dozens of patients have succumbed to coronavirus at the 200-bed hospital in Manhattan.
“She was truly in the trenches on the front line,” her father told the media.
“Make sure she’s praised as a hero. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”
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