In Darvish, 52 year old Manjeet Singh Reon was the U.

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A any consultant, he rose to become head of emergency services here.

Yet despite the pressures of the role, colleagues say he always maintained a dry sense of humor.

Inspirational one of these people that created joy on the shop floor of the moment department, he enjoyed the Intellectual Challenge Encyclopedia.

Knowledge of emergency medicine shaped a whole generation of junior doctors in the emergency department.

Mr.

React was well respected, nationally, credited with contributing to the birth of academic emergency medicine.

And yet he was always extremely modest about his professional achievements.

His cousin told me today that the consultant Wasat Heart, a family man married with two sons, of whom he was fiercely proud, use very passionate about life.

It is very kind, generous, very well, and I'm going to match it.

And he was also the first seek any consultant.

You must be very proud of that.

You know what you do is a very the consultants.

Death means that at least 100 health and care workers have now died with Corona virus.

That's according to a nursing website that's been recording fatalities since the outbreak began, a figure far higher than the 27 publicly verified by the government.

A disproportionately high number have bean from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

For the first time this week, NHS, England have released data showing the ethnic breakdown of those who have died with Corona virus.

It suggests that around 16% of from an ethnic background confirming what some professionals now believe.

That the impact of this crisis is not being felt equally across all communities.

Some of those who worked with Mr React say they support the government's announcement of a review into why people from ethnic minorities are disturbingly and disproportionately affected by the disease.

Using the talents and special skills that my Riyadh eyes is true silently, absolutely in light off the specialty, I think some of the backdrop Teoh suggesting that there may well be linked.

Eso does, he feared, investigated.

Unable to meet at the good wearer, Mr Reacts family will tonight hold online prayers for him.

He was a prominent member of the local Sikh community and particularly close to his extended family way.

The community generally happens.

They rushed in.

Each other's just Mr React died at the Royal Darby, the same hospital where he had so for two decades.

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Well, Jones, sadly, is the co chair of the NHS Equality and Diversity Council and director of partnerships Inequality at the NHS Confederation.

She joins me now from *** food, obviously all deaths from this virus or a terrible individual tragedy for families and colleagues.

But there has been increasing concern about the disproportionate number a black and ethnic minority.

Healthcare workers.

You share it.

I'm assuming.

Yes, I do share it and let me first say, I think it's great that we're now getting data from Edit Chess England and Improvement.

We do need to work together on that data, and that shows the willing that we need to solve this problem.

It's a huge, unexpected problem.

It's the global pandemic, and we don't need to work together with the data that we have.

I mean, that data seems to me to have been slow in coming.

Yes, and there's more that should becoming.

What we do know is that we're now building on the data that we have.

We know that the critically ill patients we know that were at least 34% represented in critical care.

We're now getting data about deaths.

Onda, we still don't have data recorded of ethnicity on death certificates.

So these are some of the things that we will be tackling essentially and must indeed happen.

But that sort of information is surely needed critically if you're to prevent future deaths.

Yes, and for all communities.

Actually, this thing kind of highlights not just for being me populations, but for all of the population.

If you don't have the data, then you can't solve the problem.

And so there is something about not just having the data, but intelligently using it.

Because, frankly, we know that bme populations are overrepresented when it comes to pneumonia.

Disease in some respects, 13% over the general population.

And now we have a 34% critical illness in Cove in 19 related critical care.

So how do we use the data?

Better that we have got.

We need to start doing that straight away.

I mean, those numbers are so stark.

Do you have Does the world of medicine have any idea why they're so stock.

Some ideas.

But it's best not to start making things up.

So we know that underlying health conditions such as asthma and heart disease, diabetes bme populations will present at a higher level.

We also know that outside of health care, there are socioeconomic factors well reported by Michael Marmot in his report about socioeconomic conditions but actually consultants, healthcare condition, health care workers and nurses right across the scale of economics.

You know, summer paid very well in some are not so This isn't just a simple correlation, and we do want to get to the bottom off a disease that really is quite frightening.

As you say.

It is right across from well paid consultants.

But there are a number of very low paid healthcare workers who I think up until now we'll have felt that many people view them to be low value that term, low skilled.

Do you think this changes any of that?

I think it must the low value the hostility that bme people face and they do day to day the reality of the micro aggressions.

We face the staff who will report in our workforce, race equality standard reports that they face more discrimination and harassment.

These are realities, and we do want recognized.

We want the anxiety recognized for the whole population.

But more so for BME staff one the front lines and scared that they won't go home.

This is not acceptable.

So much more to talk about the Jones Sadler for now.

Thank you very much for talking to us.

Thank you.