Aligarh, UTTAR PRADESH :

Agra :

Just this week, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has lost three faculty members and five retired professors to Covid-19 or after showing symptoms.

The university has been swamped with cases in the past few days — 30 faculty and staff members have tested positive and been admitted to AMU’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, as have 12 consultants, 20 resident doctors and some paramedical staff members of the medical college.

AMU officials said noted critic and senior faculty member at the department of Urdu Prof Maula Bakhsh Ansari, 58; faculty member of the Sunni theology section Prof Ehsanullah Fahad, 50, and in-charge of leather and footwear technology section at University Polytechnic AMU Saeed Uzzaman, 51, were serving faculty members who died in the past two days.

“Prof Ansari had been admitted to a private hospital and died within a few days on Wednesday (April 21). He had not been tested for Covid-19, but he had symptoms of the disease,” said former director of the Urdu Academy AMU, Rahat Abrar . Ansari had been working on six projects of books on stylistics, critical studies and cultural studies. They are yet to be published.

Fahad, meanwhile, had been admitted to AMU’s medical college for Covid-19 treatment. “After his report came back negative, he was moved to the non-Covid ward. But he died two days later of post-Covid complications,” medical college principal Prof Shahid Ali Siddiqui said. He, too, died on Wednesday.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News / Agra News / by Anuja Jaiswal, TNN / April 24th, 2021