A United States-born physician, who was raised in the Caribbean, is among front line workers who have succumbed to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Dr. James A. “Charlie” Mahoney, who grew up in military housing in Bermuda, died in April after contracting the disease working in Brooklyn, New York. He was 62.
Mahoney, a pulmonary and critical care attending physician, worked at the University Hospital of Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate, the same institution where he attended medical school, starting 1982.
“He was the first one on the front lines taking the onslaught,” Dr. Robert Foronjy, chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at SUNY Downstate, told CNN. “He was our backbone. He saw this as his calling.”
Dr. Mahoney also worked at Kings County Hospital Center, a healthcare facility frequented by Caribbean nationals in New York City. He left behind a wife and three children.
