{"id":323450,"date":"2020-05-24T06:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T06:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323450"},"modified":"2020-05-24T06:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T06:26:49","slug":"delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-condoles-senior-aiims-doctors-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-condoles-senior-aiims-doctors-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal condoles senior AIIMS doctor&#8217;s demise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321073 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-2.jpg 754w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-2-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-2-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-2-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-2-696x483.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-2-606x420.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday condoled the demise of a senior doctor at Delhi&#8217;s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) who died of COVID-19 on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHeartfelt condolences to Dr Pande&#8217;s family. He retired from AIIMS after a long career of service but continued to work in another hospital until his unfortunate demise this week due to Corona. Delhi salutes you sir. RIP,\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Jitendra Nath Pande was the director of the Pulmonology department at the hospital. He had tested positive on Tuesday with mild symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He passed away at his residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Sangita Reddy, joint managing director, Apollo Hospitals Group, and president of industry chamber FICCI said the disease has claimed its most illustrious victim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDeeply saddened to hear that today @covid19 claimed it\u2019s most illustrious victim Dr. J.N Pande Director &amp; Prof of Pulmonology @aiims_newdelhi. A stalwart of the medical world his work in pulmonology will continue to ensure better health for many My Condolences to his family,\u201d she tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The novel coronavirus cases in Delhi has risen to 12,910 with 231 deaths, according to Health Ministry website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday condoled the demise of a senior doctor at Delhi&#8217;s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) who died of COVID-19 on Saturday. \u201cHeartfelt condolences to Dr Pande&#8217;s family. He retired from AIIMS after a long career of service but continued to work in another hospital until his unfortunate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1379,306,12750,429,13057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323451,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323450\/revisions\/323451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}