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Tributes flow for the late Dr Sharma

Pádraig Byrne

January 30 2021 12:00 AM

Touching tributes were paid to a kind and caring doctor, a hard working colleague and a funny and generous friend at Wexford General Hospital as friends of Dr Keshav Sharma gathered at the hospital chapel to bid a fond and final farewell last week.

Dr Sharma’s sudden passing sent shockwaves right across the country, among colleagues and friends gathered over many years in Ireland. A respiratory physician at Wexford General Hospital, Dr Sharma treated patients from right across the county and was extremely busy at the time of his untimely passing, working on the frontline in the battle against Covid-19.

In the small hospital chapel, images of Dr Sharma’s trademark smile stood atop his coffin as colleagues read out tributes that had been paid over the course of…