Manjeet Singh Riyat
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.
Biography
[edit]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]
Death
[edit]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]
Selected publications
[edit]- MacNamara, A. F.; Riyat, M. S.; Quinton, D. N. (November 1996). "The Changing Profile of Poisoning and its Management". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 89 (11): 608–610. doi:10.1177/014107689608901104. ISSN 0141-0768. PMC 1295994. PMID 9135587. (co-author)
- Lennon, R. I.; Riyat, M. S.; Hilliam, R.; Anathkrishnan, G.; Alderson, G. (1 February 2007). "Can a normal range of elbow movement predict a normal elbow x ray?". Emergency Medicine Journal. 24 (2): 86–88. doi:10.1136/emj.2006.039792. ISSN 1472-0205. PMC 2658213. PMID 17251609. (co-author)
- Boden, D. G.; Agarwal, A.; Hussain, T.; Martin, S. J.; Radford, N.; Riyat, M. S.; So, K.; Su, Y.; Turvey, A.; Whale, C. I. (February 2016). "Lowering levels of bed occupancy is associated with decreased inhospital mortality and improved performance on the 4-hour target in a UK District General Hospital". Emergency Medicine Journal. 33 (2): 85–90. doi:10.1136/emermed-2014-204479. ISSN 1472-0213. PMID 26380995. S2CID 34866960. (co-author)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Munro-Davies, Lisa; Hewitt, Susanne (2020). "Manjeet Riyat". Rcem. Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ a b Hewitt, Susanne M.; Chowdhury, Mahbub M. (29 May 2020). "Manjeet Singh Riyat (obituary)". BMJ. 369: m2114. doi:10.1136/bmj.m2114. ISSN 1756-1833. S2CID 219234266.
- ^ a b c d Whittaker, Anna (20 April 2020). "Royal Derby consultant and dad-of-two dies after contracting coronavirus". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ "Tributes paid to Derby Emergency Consultant". University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. 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. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
he became the first Sikh to be appointed as an emergency medicine consultant in the UK.
- ^ Welch, Ellen (2022). How the NHS Coped with Covid-19. South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword History. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-1-3990-0611-8.
- ^ Kyriakidou, Maria; Morani, Marina; Willmington, Lizzy (2022). "4. Representing diversity during COVID-19". In Trandafoiu, Ruxandra (ed.). Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen (1st ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-000-60098-8.
Further reading
[edit]- Morani, Marina; Willmington, Lizzy (26 June 2020). "A bit more human?: trends in TV news coverage of BAME people during the pandemic". LSE COVID-19 Blog.
- Whittaker, Anna (23 April 2020). "Words of Derby consultant who died from Covid-19 helped save my life". DerbyshireLive. Retrieved 6 November 2022.