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An “incredibly charming and much-loved” hospital consultant died yesterday after contracting the coronavirus, as the death toll for healthcare and care workers exceeds 100.
Manjeet Singh Riyat, father of three, an emergency consultant, was described as “the father of the current emergency department” by his colleagues at Royal Derby Hospital.
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He was the first Sikh to work as an A&E consultant in the United Kingdom.
Yesterday, tributes were paid to 10 other frontline medical and healthcare workers who died from Covid-19, bringing the total to more than 100.
The figures come from Nursing Notes, a platform managed and reviewed by nurses, although the Government claims it is 49.
Many families have said that their deaths were caused by a lack of adequate personal protective equipment.
Paying tribute to Mr. Riyat, Emergency Medicine Consultant Susie Hewitt said: “Manjeet was highly valued and well-liked as a colleague, supervisor and mentor, as well as for his wise advice and discreet support in difficult times.
“For many, Manjeet was considered the father of the current Derby Emergency Department and many more will reflect on how his inspiration has shaped their own careers.”
She added: “Despite his many accomplishments, Manjeet was more at home as a highly visible emergency medicine consultant in the workshop.
“He was consistently generous with his remarkable clinical knowledge to everyone on the team.
“He had the rare gift of maintaining constant joy in the intellectual challenge of clinical medicine, combined with gentle kindness and compassion for his patients.
“He was a powerful advocate for the sickest patients and was known for his fair and pointless approach. On the contrary, Manjeet could be trusted to elevate the mood with his dry humor and sense of fun.”
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In another tribute, trusted CEO Gavin Boyle said: “Mr. Riyat, known to his colleagues as Manjeet, was a widely respected consultant in emergency medicine nationwide.
“Manjeet was the first A&E consultant for the Sikh community in the country and was instrumental in building the emergency medicine service in Derbyshire for the past two decades.
“He was an incredibly charming and much loved person. Manjeet knew so many people here at the hospital; we will all miss him very much.”
Dr. Kathy McLean OBE, President of Derby University Hospitals and the Burton Trust Foundation, said: “Manjeet was very popular throughout the hospital and was a warm and welcoming figure, a person many of our staff admired.
“I found him again shortly after I returned to the trust as president and was greeted with a big hug.
“I want to offer our condolences to all his family and friends in this sad moment.”
Yesterday’s nursing notes revealed the grim news that at least 100 health and welfare workers are now believed to have died from the deadly virus.
The father of three sons Abdul Gellaledin, 53, an ambulance attendant, died after 11 days with a ventilator at Kingston Hospital.
He died on April 9 after contracting the deadly virus from one of the patients he transported to and from the hospital without personal protective equipment.
It was announced today that Dr. Craig Wakeham, a family doctor in Dorset, died after hiring Covid-19.
He was a doctor at Cerne Abbas Surgery.
A statement on his website said, “His legacy lives on in our patients, whom he cared for diligently and in the good name he built for our surgery.”
Retired nurse Joan Grimshaw, 89, died on April 1 after joining the NHS 72 years ago as one of the first nursing students to work for the health service.
He retired in 1995, but still attended nightly outings with casualty staff once a month.
Her daughter Denise said working as a nurse for the NHS had “meant everything” to her mother.
Popular nurse Patrick McManus, 60, died after hiring Covid-19 after a distinguished four-decade career on the NHS.
The “Outstanding Leader” spent the past 10 years in Stafford at North Midlands University Hospitals.
Another health heroine, retired children’s doctor Judith Darmady OBE, died at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.
The 84-year-old man had a long career as a pediatrician before retiring in 1995, and received a gong in the Queen’s birthday honors in 2010.
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Hospital cleaning manager Joanna Klenczon, 34, died on April 9 after a battle with the coronavirus. Joanna, originally from Poland, worked at Northampton General Hospital for ten years.
Yesterday, Gerallt Davies, 51, became the first paramedic in Wales to die after contacting the coronavirus. He had worked for the Welsh Ambulance Service for 26 years.
Josephine Peter, a nurse at Southport and Formby District General Hospital, died there Saturday.
Her husband described her as “my heroine”.
Trish Armstrong-Child, executive director of the trust, said: “Josephine, of Hayes, Middlesex, had worked in Southport since February on an agency contract until she became ill in early April. She was a nurse for 20 years and married and had two sons. .
“Josephine’s husband Thabo told me that she was passionate, hardworking, that she always put others before her. She was ‘my heroine,'” she said.
“Our thoughts go out to Josephine’s family at this difficult time and we offer our sincere condolences.”
And Chrissie Emerson, who worked as a health care assistant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, died after testing positive for the fatal error.
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