Manjeet Singh Riyat | |
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| Born | 4 December 1967 |
| Died | 20 April 2020 |
Manjeet Singh Riyat (4 December 1967 – 20 April 2020) was a British emergency care consultant, and the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom.
Riyat's death from COVID-19 in the early months of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England received widespread media coverage in the UK. It was a call to investigate COVID-19 related deaths in some ethnic minorities.
Manjeet Singh Riyat was born on 4 December 1967. [1] He completed his medical degree at the University of Leicester in 1992. [2] He underwent training at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County Hospital and in 2003 he joined Royal Derby Hospital as a consultant in emergency medicine, the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom. [1] [3] He was appointed head of the emergency department there in 2006, and was chair of the hospital's medical advisory committee and its medical staffing committee. [3]
Riyat taught emergency medicine and served as an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine from 2007, becoming lead examiner for their fellowship examinations in 2016. [1] [3] [4] He was also a PLAB part 2 examiner with the General Medical Council.[ citation needed ]
He was one of the first clinical research fellows in academic emergency medicine. [2]
He was married and had two sons. [5]
Riyat died, aged 52, at the hospital where he worked, on 20 April 2020, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England. [3] [6] In context of the disproportionate rate of COVID-19 related deaths in some ethnic minorities during the early months of 2020, Riyat's death received widespread media coverage in the UK and was a call to investigate further. [7]
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he became the first Sikh to be appointed as an emergency medicine consultant in the UK.