A much-loved A&E consultant has died after contracting coronavirus, an NHS trust has said. Manjeet Riyat was known by his colleagues at the Royal Derby Hospital as the 'father of the emergency department'.
Mr Riyat, the UK's first Sikh A&E consultant, has been described as 'instrumental' in building the emergency medicine service in Derbyshire over the past 20 years.
He died on Monday at Royal Derby Hospital, the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust (UHDB) said. The emergency consultant, who previously worked at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County Hospital, also acted as an emergency medicine tutor at Derby College where he oversaw the education of junior doctors.