KARACHI: Senior doctor and renowned academician Dr Muhammad Saleh Soomro died of Covid-19 on Tuesday, his colleagues and friends said.

They said that Dr Soomro was admitted to high dependency unit (HDU) of Expo Centre Isolation Centre after testing positive a few days ago but later he was moved to ventilator after his health condition deteriorated.

Dr Soomro, they said, was currently associated with Baqai Medical University as professor and chairman of its department of physiology.

Published in Dawn, January 20th, 2021