Manjeet Singh Riyat, 52, died at the Royal Derby Hospital yesterday, where he worked as an emergency medicine consultantTributes were paid yesterday to another 10 frontline health and care workers who died of Covid-19, taking the total to more than 100.
Paying tribute to Mr Riyat, Emergency Medicine Consultant Susie Hewitt said: "Manjeet was enormously valued and much loved as a colleague, supervisor and mentor as well as for his wise council and discreet support in tough times. "He was a powerful advocate for the sickest patients and was well-known for his fair, no-nonsense approach. By contrast, Manjeet could be relied upon to lift the mood with his dry humour and sense of fun."BRITAIN’s four million NHS staff are on the frontline in the battle against coronavirus.The Sun has launched an appeal to raise £1MILLION for NHS workers.
Dr Kathy McLean OBE, chair of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton Foundation Trust, said: "Manjeet was hugely popular across the hospital and a warm and embracing figure, a person who many of our staff looked up to."I want to offer our condolences to all his family and friends at this sad time."
He died on April 9 after contracting the deadly virus from one of the patients he ferried to and from hospital without personal protective equipment.He was a doctor at the Cerne Abbas Surgery. Popular nurse Patrick McManus, 60, died after contracting Covid-19 after a distinguished four-decade career in the NHS.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Rest in peace ..Love u all warriors..
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