A retired Doctor in Karachi has died due to the novel coronavirus after he was allegedly denied treatment at various public and private hospitals.

Dr Furqan-ul-Haq is the third doctor in the city to have lost to COVID-19. Dr Furqan had recently retired from the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases. He tested positive for coronavirus last week and was self-isolating at home.

“He was dying due to shortness of breath after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, but no hospital admitted him,” the wife of Dr Furqan-ul-Haq, a retired practitioner of the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD), told The News on Sunday.

“He was taken to the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation [SIUT], and a private hospital in Azizabad where he used to work, but all of them said they had no beds available. He asked me to take him back home, where he passed away today," she said.