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On the night of January 12, the life of Valdas Kuolas, a 67-year-old gastroenetrologist at the Klaipėda Marine Hospital, came to light.
Valdas Kuolas
Klaipeda Seamen’s Hospital announced this on their Facebook account:
“We are deeply saddened to announce that in the late afternoon of January 12, 2021, we lost a colleague, Dr. Valdas Kuolas. After fighting for other lives, he sadly lost his fight. The insidious coronavirus snatched a colleague from him without giving him hope or at least the slightest possibility of keeping the thread of life in his hands.
That is why candles were lit today in the hospital not only in memory of the victims of January 13, but also in memory of our doctor.
Valdas, a native of Zarasai, has connected his entire career to our hospital. And it lasted 40 years.
After studying at the Kaunas Medical Institute, Valdas worked as a ship doctor for more than a decade and completed a ship doctor internship. Later, after graduating from clinical ordinance, he returned to work as a doctor in the Patient Admission – Emergency Department of Klaipda Seamen’s Hospital, later – as a doctor in the gastroenterologist diagnostic departments.
Having gained extensive experience working as a ship physician, Valdas actively contributed to the establishment of the Division of Maritime Medicine at the hospital, and for nearly 20 years was chairman of the Seafarers Medical Commission until he resigned from this position that year. past.
Principle and demanding of colleagues, meticulous and extremely caring patients. Excluding business hours, weekends. Always attentive, focused, with excellent memory, even without records in medical documents, remember the diseases of patients and their course. Perhaps that is why the patients who came to him once wanted treatment only with this professional. The patients looked for him and Valdas did not respond to anyone. Therefore, the doctor provided telephone advice to patients in good faith in the days when no one knew what COVID-19 was and quarantine.
The professionalism of the doctor was repeatedly evaluated not only by the director of the hospital, but also by the Minister of Health.
He was a deep man, doing his best. He was interested in sports and was passionate about basketball, he attended competitions, he knew not only the clubs and stars of our country.
However, his great passion was history, especially Lithuanian history. For colleagues, it was like a living encyclopedia. When interviewed, he opened up a treasure trove of knowledge.
“Take your time,” he told his colleagues, who were moving the marker on the wall calendar from tomorrow to tomorrow.
Unfortunately, there will be no more days in Valdas’ 67th calendar.
We express our deepest condolences to his family: his wife, his daughter, and his two grandchildren, whom his colleague loved so much. The farm will always remain in our hearts and in our memory.
Klaipeda Sailors Hospital Community “
This is the third medical death from COVID-19 reported this week.
On Tuesday, the Lithuanian Ultrasound Association announced that on January 8. Another doctor, urologist Narimantas Balčiūnas, died of COVID-19 in Lithuania.
Delfi recalls that on Monday the death of Regina Gaižutienė, Senior Nurse of the Urology Department of the Republican Panevėžys Hospital, from COVID-19 was announced.
The first doctor to die of coronavirus was a long-term doctor from the Šilutė Healthy Family Family Medical Center. Family doctors diagnosed coronavirus on October 15. His life died on October 27.
A member of the Lithuanian Medical Movement, a well-known surgeon at Mažeikiai Hospital, died of coronavirus in December. The 57-year-old doctor had COVID-19 for about a month.
The coronavirus also claimed the life of the general practice nurse at the Miroslav Outpatient Clinic of the Alytus District Primary Health Care Center. The woman would have turned sixty this year. This was announced by the mayor of the Alytus district, Algirdas Vrubliauskas, on the social network Facebook. According to A. Vrubliauskas, the nurse was infected by a sick relative.
Last week the death of a pediatrician at Pasvalys Hospital was reported. After the start of the pandemic and the closure of the Pediatric Unit, the doctor treated patients with COVID-19.
A little later, COVID-19 reported the death of a nurse from the Troškūnai section of the Department of Nursing and Supportive Treatment of the Anykščiai District Hospital.
Last week, a dentist working at the Pabiržė outpatient clinic in Biržai district was also reported dead due to the coronavirus.
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