Manjeet Singh Riyat

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.

Manjeet Singh Riyat
Born4 December 1967
Died20 April 2020

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 and was a call to investigate COVID-19 related deaths in some ethnic minorities.

Biography

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.

He was one of the first clinical research fellows in academic emergency medicine.[2]

He was married and had two sons.[5]

Death

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
  • 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
  1. Munro-Davies, Lisa; Hewitt, Susanne (2020). "Manjeet Riyat". Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  2. 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.
  3. Whittaker, Anna (20 April 2020). "Royal Derby consultant and dad-of-two dies after contracting coronavirus". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  4. "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.
  5. 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.
  6. Welch, Ellen (2022). How the NHS Coped with Covid-19. South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword History. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-1-3990-0611-8.
  7. 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.

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