{"id":637,"date":"2020-05-04T04:09:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T04:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=637"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:35:57","slug":"dr-anton-sebastianpillai-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Dr Anton Sebastianpillai, United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr Anton Sebastianpillai died four days after being admitted to the south west London hospital where he had worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consultant geriatrician, who qualified as a doctor in Sri Lanka in 1967, finished his last shift on March 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokeswoman for Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said: \u201cIt is with great sadness that I confirm the death of a consultant geriatrician who was part of the team at Kingston Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr Anton Sebastianpillai died on Saturday having been cared for in the hospital\u2019s intensive care unit since March 31. We would like to extend our sincere condolences to his family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an obituary notice, he was referred to as a \u201cdistinguished alumnus\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Anton Sebastianpillai died four days after being admitted to the south west London hospital where he had worked. The consultant geriatrician, who qualified as a doctor in Sri Lanka in 1967, finished his last shift on March 20. A spokeswoman for Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said: \u201cIt is with great sadness that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[48,7019,13],"tags":[5655,686,395,5656,394],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Anton-Sebastianpillai.jpg?fit=976%2C549&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5310,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=5310","url_meta":{"origin":637,"position":0},"title":"Medhat Atalla, Consultant Geriatrician","date":"April 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Medhat Atalla \u2013 a Consultant Geriatrician at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Doncaster, England \u2013 passed away after suffering from COVID-19. 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