Belgian doctor Antoine Sassine, urologist at Chirec Delta Hospital, who survived the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease after 6 weeks in the intensive care unit and 3.5 weeks in a coma is helped by his wife Alexandra as he leaves the hospital in Brussels, Belgium, April 19, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman

BRUSSELS: A Belgian urologist has spoken of his "incredible" experience, having survived COVID-19 and been discharged from intensive care after three weeks in a coma. 

"I was seeing my end," Antoine Sassine said from his room at Brussels' Delta Chirec hospital, where he used to work. "I thought I was going to die and would never wake up."