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
Born	4 December 1967
Died	20 April 2020(2020-04-20) (aged 52)

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

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

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)