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24Apr

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Melonie Mitchell, Service Adviser

Melonie Mitchell – an NHS 111 Service Adviser at North East London 111 Integrated Urgent Care Centre, London, England – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 24 April 2020. Source: London Ambulance Service Please help us in adding details.

24Apr

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Peter E. Gill, golfer

Peter E. Gill –an English professional golfer – died on 23 April 2020, due to coronavirus. In 1959 he won the Coombe Hill Assistants' Tournament and the Gor-Ray Cup in successive weeks. He died in 2020 Gill was an assistant professional in the 1950s, first at Little Aston Golf Club and then at Addington Golf Club. He played regularly in assistants' tournaments and in 1953, while still at Little Aston, he reached the semi-final of the Gor-Ray Cup, the PGA Assistants' Championship, before losing to Geoffrey Hunt. He qualified for the Open Championship the same year. In 1959 he won the Coombe Hill Assistants' Tournament and the Gor-Ray Cup in successive weeks. He won the Coombe Hill Tournament after a six-hole playoff with Billy Bingham and then won the Gor-Ray Cup, a stroke ahead ...

24Apr

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Tony Kabia, Hospital Staff

Tony Kabia – a Hospital Staff, Security Team at Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, England – passed away on 23 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Tony was 58 years old. He was treated on the intensive care unit and was placed in a medically induced coma, but he was unable to fight the virus. Source: Manchester Evening News Please help us in adding details.

23Apr

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Angie Cunningham, Nurse

Angie Cunningham – a Nurse at NHS Borders, Melrose, Scotland – passed away on 22 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Angie was 60 years old. Angie Cunningham, worked with NHS Borders for more than 30 years. People lined the route of the funeral cortege through her home village of Tweedbank before staff stood in tribute outside Borders General Hospital. They burst into applause as the hearse carrying Ms Cunningham passed by on its way to the private service. A floral tribute was laid by funeral director Awdri Doyle on behalf of the family at a shrine which has been set up in her memory in front of the hospital's chaplaincy centre. Source: BBC News Please help us in adding details.

23Apr

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Medhat Atalla, Consultant Geriatrician

Medhat Atalla – a Consultant Geriatrician at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Doncaster, England – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on April 22, 2020. Medhat Atalla was 62 years old. In a joint statement, Dr Tim Noble, Medical Director, and Richard Parker OBE, Chief Executive at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, said: “It is with immense sadness that we inform you that our colleague, Dr Medhat Atalla, has passed away following treatment for Covid-19 at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. “Dr Atalla became a full-time member of our Trust in 2014, when he was appointed as a Consultant Geriatrician on our Gresley Unit. We were fortunate to have worked with him for many years prior to this, since his arrival in the United Kingdom in the ...

23Apr

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Sharon Bamford, Nurse

Sharon Bamford – an Oncology Nurse at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, Wales – passed away on 22 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Sharon was 63 years old. "Warm, caring and dedicated" Sharon Bamford, who worked at Swansea's Singleton Hospital, was the eighth Welsh NHS worker to die with the virus. She died at Morriston Hospital on Tuesday. Her death came just days after her 73-year-old husband Malcolm died in the same intensive care unit. "Sharon was highly thought of by all the patients," said Singleton Hospital director Jan Worthing. She added Mrs Bamford was also "loved by her colleagues and friends within the team". Mrs Bamford had worked at the hospital for "many years", and in the haematology and oncology ward since...

23Apr

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Julian Perry Robinson, chemist

Julian Perry Robinson – a British chemist and peace researcher died on 22 April 2020 as a result of complications related to COVID-19. He held research appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Harvard University and the University of Sussex. He was a consultant to the World Health Organisation, United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Environment Programme. He was a member of staff at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1968 to 1971. While there he was a principal contributor to the six volume study The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare . He was also a co-convenor of the Pugwash Study Group on Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, co-directed the Harvard Sussex Programme...

22Apr

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Katy Davis, Nurse

Katy Davis – a Child Health Nurse at University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, England – passed away on 21 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Katy was 37 years old. A spokesman for University Hospital Southampton (UHS) said that Katy had worked as risk and patient safety lead in child health, though had been unwell for a period prior to her admittance to hospital when she tested positive for Covid-19. Source: Evening Standard Please help us in adding details.

Manjeet Singh Riyat, emergency medicine consultant

21Apr

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Manjeet Singh Riyat, emergency medicine consultant

Manjeet Singh Riyat a British emergency care consultant died, aged 52, at the hospital where he worked, on 20 April 2020. Riyat is described as the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom. After education at the University of Leicester, qualifying in 1992, and training at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County Hospital, he joined Royal Derby Hospital as a consultant in emergency medicine, in 2003. He rose to be head of the emergency department there in 2006, and was chair of the hospital's medical advisory committee and its medical staffing committee. Riyat taught emergency medicine at Derby College. He served as an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine from 2007, becoming lead examiner for their fellowship examinations in 20...

21Apr

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Grant Maganga, Mental Health Nurse

Grant Maganga – a Mental Health Nurse at Hurst Place in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, Manchester, England – passed away on 20 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Grant was 56 years old. Mr Maganga, who died aged 56, was a mental health nurse at Hurst Place, a rehabilitation unit for men with severe mental illness and complex needs in Ashton-under-Lyme, Greater Manchester. Having gained his registration in 2009, he had worked at the unit since it was first established 10 years ago. Trust director of nursing Clare Parker described Mr Maganga as an outstanding nurse whose death was “another tremendous loss” to the nursing community. “Grant was an exceptional nurse who cared deeply for his patients and lit up the room with his infectious smile and positive personality,” she said. So...