Follow this link and select My Oldham News. We have many other newsletters that may interest you as well.In May 2020, he was forced to bury his friend and colleague, Dr Saad Al-Dubbaisi, a 59-year-old GP from Bury.Dr Al-Dubbaisi was the first GP in Greater Manchester to die with coronavirus.Working as the clinical lead for death certification across the region, Dr Chauhan was called out to verify hundreds of deaths during the first wave of the pandemic.He would often be called to care homes in the middle of the night to confirm that a resident had tragically died.“Personally it’s changed lots of things in my life,” he added.“Seeing all these deaths and then going home and trying to sleep, I’d be thinking about what it must be like being on.