A doctor who warned the Prime Minister that NHS staff didn't have enough personal protective equipment (PPE) has died from coronavirus.
Abdul Mabud Chowdhury passed away after spending the past 15 days in hospital. The 53-year-old was a senior consultant in the urology department at Romford Queen Elizabeth Hospital in east London.
On March 18, in an urgent message to Boris Johnson, Dr Chowdhury wrote that the PM needed to ensure personal protective equipment for "each and every NHS worker in the UK".
He told Johnson that healthcare workers "are in direct contact with patients" and have a "human right like others to live in this world disease-free with our family and children".