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Coronavirus : India's first woman cardiologist dies of COVID-19


She was undergoing treatment at the insititute for past 11 days, according to reports.

"Dr S Padmavati, an eminent cardiologist, rather the first female cardiologist of the India, popularly known as "God Mother of Cardiology" passed away on August 29 due to COVID-19 infection," the NHI statement was quoted as saying.Founder of NHI, she was born in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1917, a year before the world was hit by the Spanish Flu pandemic."She was admitted with COVID-19 and had breathing difficulty and fever. She developed pneumonia in both lungs and needed ventilator support. However, she sustained a cardiac arrest and passed away," the NHI said.

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