Dr Jim Birley
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Lanka, and emigrate to the UK in 1981. He worked at Manor and St Ebba’s hospitals as a consultant psychiatrist in learning disabilities from 1981 until 1995. Satkunam was born in May 1926 and educated in Jaffna, Northern Sri Lanka, and qualified in medicine in Colombo. He obtained his MRCPsych in 1963, completing postgraduate study at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and returned to Sri Lanka to work in Colombo at the two major mental hospitals there, at Angoda and Mulleriyawa. In his last few years he was partially disabled due to a stroke he suffered several years before. Nevertheless, he remained active both professionally and within charitable organisations. He went thrice to Lourdes on pilgrimages for people with special needs, the last only a month before his death from pneumonia. Satkunam was a gentle man of great personal integrity and honesty. He loved people and their company and could surprise with his quiet but at times wicked sense of humour. He will be greatly missed by family, friends and colleagues in both countries. I first met Satkunam when I returned to Sri Lanka to work as a child psychiatrist at the University of Colombo in 1978. He was a senior colleague who helped me a great deal to adjust to work and life in Sri Lanka. Satkunam, who died on 6 October 2013, leaves his widow Rasu, his son Kuhan, daughter-in-law Christine and grandson Theo. Anula Nikapota doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.114.046854
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دوره 38 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2014