MUSCAT : His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Al Saidi, Oman’s health minister, has mourned the death of Indian expat nurse Blessy Thomas, who worked at the government hospital in Muscat.
The 37-year-old died on September 15 at the Royal Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, making it the first case of coronavirus related deaths among health workers in the country’s Ministry of Health.
“We lost one of our daughters,” said Al Saidi. “She (Blessy) came from another governorate to the governorate of Muscat to help and support us. She was just 37-years,” he said.
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Blessy who hailed from Kerala in India was working in Sinaw government hospital before she moved to Muscat to help treat coronavirus patients.
Meanwhile, more than 2,800 health workers have been infected with coronavirus in the last seven months. “2848 medical staff have been infected with Covid-19 of which 42% are due to community transfer,” Al Saidi pointed out. Oman’s total coronavirus cases has touched 94,051, while death toll has reached 885.
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