Well-known Bo-Kaap family doctor Fuad Jakoet has died of the Coronavirus.
The 69-year-old passed away on Tuesday at about 6.30am.
The Bo-Kaap resident was admitted to hospital on 2 June with a bout of pneumonia and following testing, was diagnosed with Covid-19.
Dr Jakoet is survived by his five children, all of whom are doctors, and wife who is
currently in isolation.
Dr Jakoet and his brother Dr Yusuf Jakoet, are known as the “sunnat” doctors, where Muslim parents take their sons for circumcisions, and they have surgeries all over Cape Town, including Salt River, Mitchells Plain, Maitland and Wynberg.
BELOVED: Dr Fuad Jakoet, 69
The Covid-19 Bo-Kaap Community Response Team sent out a notice on Tuesday confirming his death.
“It is with great sadness that the Covid-19 Bo-kaap Community Response Team informs the community that around Fajr time (pre-dawn), on 16 June 2020, our beloved community doctor, Fuad Jakoet, passed away. May Allah grant him Jannatul
Firdous, Ameen,” it said.
The janaazah took place Tuesday afternoon.
Dr Jakoet’s family and Bo-Kaap residents expressed their grief on social media.
“He lived a life of service to all, including the poor and destitute Please pray and meditate for his family, our Mother City and all who are suffering from this disease,” Radha Robyne Brave posted in the Facebook group Brave Recovery Warriors.
Family member Kasheef Jakoet wrote on Facebook that he woke up to the news of Dr Jakoet’s death: “A big loss for our family and communities, a true example of a man with an impeccable character and a huge heart , serving communities for decades.”
Patients left messages on the door and stoep of Dr Jakoet’s surgery in Salt River.
In a statement, Moulana Addul Khaliq Allie, First Deputy President of the Muslim Judicial Council, said: “The MJC joins the broader community in the Western Cape in expressing our deep sympathies and condolences to the Jakoet family.
“Indeed the Western Cape community, the medical fraternity and our SA society has lost a giant, a man of the community who has dedicated his life for the upliftment, for the well-being, physical, spiritual and psychological well being of our community.
TRIBUTE: Patient’s letters
“We pray that Almighty Allah must accept the noble efforts and sacrifices and contributions of Dr Fuad Jakoet and we pray that Allah must grant sabr and patience and perseverance to his family, friends, colleagues and entire community.”
On Tuesday South Africa had 73 533 Covid-19 cases, and a death toll of 1 568.
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