A top New York City doctor who was on the front line of the US fight against coronavirus has taken her own life.
The Police said Dr. Lorna Breen, who was medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan, died of self-inflicted injuries.
The father of the 49-year-old doctor, Dr. Philip Breen, told the New York Times his daughter tried to do her job and it killed her. New York accounts for 17,500 out of America’s coronavirus 56,000 deaths.
Dr Breen said his daughter had had no history of mental illness. She died in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she was staying with her family.
Lorna Breen herself fell ill with the virus during the course of her work and returned to the job after about a week-and-a-half after recuperating.
