An Indian-origin physician based in UK has been awarded for his exceptional work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ravi Solanki, the physician, was among the 19 people who won the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service.

Solanki, along with one named Raymond Siems, was feted for voluntarily building a secure and fully functioning website for a new National Health Service (NHS) charity HEROES. Solanki is a doctor working on neurodegenerative diseases.

A PTI report quoted the Academy as saying in the citation, "Ravi and Raymond's round-the-clock contributions allowed the new charity to tap into public sentiment and collect donations quickly so that NHS workers could receive the support they needed when the COVID-19 crisis was at its peak in the UK."