Manjeet Singh Riyat
Manjeet Singh Riyat (1967 or 1968 – 20 April 2020) was a British emergency care consultant, described as the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom.[1][2][3][4][5]
Manjeet Singh Riyat | |
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Born | 1967 or 1968 |
Died | 20 April 2020 Royal Derby Hospital |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Consultant, university teacher |
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Life
After education at the University of Leicester, qualifying in 1992, and training at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County Hospital, he joined Royal Derby Hospital as a consultant in emergency medicine, in 2003.[1][2] He rose to be head of the emergency department there in 2006, and was chair of the hospital's medical advisory committee and its medical staffing committee.[1]
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][6]
He was also a clinical research fellow in academic emergency medicine[3] and co-authored a number of papers, in venues including the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.[7]
Riyat died, aged 52, at the hospital where he worked, on 20 April 2020, after contracting COVID-19.[1][2][3] He was married and had two sons.[4]
References
- Whittaker, Anna (20 April 2020). "Royal Derby consultant and dad-of-two dies after contracting coronavirus". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- "UK's first Sikh A&E consultant dies after contracting Covid-19". Express and Star. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- "Tributes paid to Derby Emergency Consultant". University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- Walker, Amy (21 April 2020). "UK's first Sikh A&E consultant dies at his hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
he became the first Sikh to be appointed as an emergency medicine consultant in the UK.
- TeamGlobalPunjab (21 April 2020). "ਬ੍ਰਿਟੇਨ 'ਚ ਪਹਿਲੇ ਸਿੱਖ ਐਮਰਜੈਂਸੀ ਸਲਾਹਕਾਰ ਡਾ.ਮਨਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਾ ਕੋਰੋਨਾ ਵਾਇਰਸ ਕਾਰਨ ਦੇਹਾਂਤ". Global Punjab TV (in Punjabi). Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- "Manjeet Riyat". Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- MacNamara, A F; Riyat, M S; Quinton, D N (7 March 2018). "The Changing Profile of Poisoning and its Management". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 89 (11): 608–610. doi:10.1177/014107689608901104.