The head of the emergency department at New York City Hospital committed suicide due to a psychological trauma while treating patients with the emerging infection of the Corona virus.
Lorna Brain, 49, contracted Corona and moved to her parents' home in Charlottesville, Virginia, then returned to work in New York after a two-week treatment, but her colleagues asked her to stay at home to regain strength. The doctor could not stand the psychological pressure related to the global epidemic, and she committed suicide, according to The New York Times.
Doctor Philip Brain's father said, "His daughter was infected with the virus during her work, then recovered and returned to work after about 10 days, but the hospital asked her to take leave so she went to Virginia, to stay with her family, and there she killed herself."
He added, that his daughter was not suffering from any mental or mental illness before, and that the last time I spoke to him, I told him that it is necessary to follow up the patients with the virus since the onset of symptoms.
She told her father, Lorna, that the workers were working 18 hours a day and slept in the corridors, and the doctor’s father noted that his daughter “described to him devastating scenes of deaths due to the Corona virus,” and said, “I tried to do her job, but (these scenes) killed her.”