Dad's Legacy...His Six NHS Heroes

A Father who died of Covid-19 despite shielding has been praised for leaving behind the ultimate legacy – six children who all work on the NHS front line.

- Tom Bevan

Ahsan-ul-Haq Chaudry came to the UK from India as a teenager in the late Fifties. He went on to raise an ITU doctor, two GPs, a junior doctor, a paediatric consultant and a pharmacist.

The siblings have all been at the sharp end of the fight against Covid-19.

Despite staying at home since March, Mr Chaudry, a retired maths and computer science teacher from east London, caught coronavirus and passed away on December 28, aged 81.

He was initially admitted to the accident and emergency department where his son previously worked, and died in the same hospital where his GP daughter worked treating Covid patients.

He was just weeks away from having the vaccine when he was admitted to Queen’s Hospital, Romford, east London, just before Christmas.

Mr Chaudry’s daughter – ITU doctor Saleyha Ahsan – was by his bedside when he died.