Pune doctor: "Tried our best to save my father...unfortunately we lost him" Pune: Doctors and health care workers have been at the forefront in the fight against coronavirus. Many of them got infected; some even lost their family members to COVID-19. Dr Mukund Penurkar, at Pune's Sanjeevan Hospital, lost his father to COVID-19 on April 26. Not only that, his brother and mother are also infected with coronavirus but he continued to looking after the patients. As the situation was critical at the hospital, he was back at work in three days. "I know the situation outside is not good. We tried our best to save my father at our hospital but unfortunately, we lost him on Monday. My brother and mother are still admitted here for COVID treatment and they are doing well now," Dr Penurkar told news agency ANI. He said that he returned on duty just three days of his father's death.