A young medical officer who was infected with COVID-19 has fallen victim to the virus, Ada Derana learns.
The 32-year-old doctor, identified as Gayan Danthanarayana, was attached to the Colombo North Teaching Hospital in Ragama.
According to sources, he had been under medical care at the Mulleriyawa Hospital. After testing positive for novel coronavirus, he was transferred to the Teaching Hospital in Karapitiya, where he was on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine for life support.
Dr Danthanarayana was hospitalized to be treated for non-communicable disease, however, a PCR test carried out on January 27 had confirmed that he was positive for novel coronavirus.
He is an alumnus of Tianjin University in China. Upon graduating in 2010, he returned to Sri Lanka and got through the Examination to Register to Practice Medicine (ERPM) before serving at rural hospitals in Chilaw and Ampara.
He is the first medical officer in Sri Lanka to pass away from COVID-19 infection.
