A hospital consultant surgeon who retired after being left severely ill from Covid-19 has been honoured for his lifetime work in women’s healthcare.
Mr Sanjeev Sharma received his Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Southport and Ormskirk hospitals’ Time to Shine staff awards.
Mr Sanjeev Sharma, who contracted Covid during the first wave of the pandemic, nearly died from his ordeal and has subsequently lost his sight.
He received his Lifetime Achievement Award from Executive Medical Director Dr Kate Clark at the online ceremony broadcast to staff and their families.
Dr Clark said: “I’ve learnt from the unprompted warmth with which colleagues talk about him, that he is a man held in huge esteem by all those who knew and worked with him.
“It is said he could hardly walk down a corridor without people stopping him to say hello!
“Perhaps it was because he helped so many of them over the course of his long career – and few forgot his kindness and approachable manner.”
The consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, from Formby, joined what would become Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust in 1992 after being a senior registrar in Liverpool.
Using his close links with the city, he developed a first-class fertility service at Ormskirk Hospital that made dreams come true for many hundreds of couples.
Mr Sharma, who retired in summer after being struck down with Covid-19 in March 2020, joined the ceremony remotely with his wife Deepali. Their daughter Iona thanked his colleagues on behalf of the family.
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