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MBABANE – On Sunday the Hhohho Regional Football Association (HRFA) hosted a medical workshop at Supply Centre for the Super League.

Super League is the region’s flagship division and the country’s football third-tier. Like it is done for the Premier League, as well as the National First Division, medical teams are being deployed to football games in a bid to help the team doctors attend to injuries better. Welcome Motsa, who is the instructor, mentioned that they reached out to the Super League after the other major leagues were taken care of. He said these efforts would empower the teams, especially medical personnel. He highlighted plans of having at least two medical personnel at the each of the playing venues, citing that it would help those teams with little knowledge of attending to injuries.

“We conducted the first phase of the medical workshop, the number of phases will depend on how quickly they are able to catch on,” mentioned Motsa during an interview. The workshop usually takes up to seven hours per phase, where a majority of what is learned factors frequent football injuries. Motsa cited injuries like concussions, fainting and muscle injuries as a whole. HRFA has been able to conduct these workshops in all the four regions. Hhohho has 26 medical personnel being prepared. Manzini has 18. Meanwhile, Lubombo has 14 while Shiselweni boasts 18. These numbers will ensure that at each playing venue, two officials are made available.

“We are set on providing a safer environment for football as a whole in the country, where we have to match the standards of Premier League,” mentioned Motsa. He also made mention of having injuries attended to as quickly and efficiently as possible, citing that ambulances within the zones were made aware of the improved safety in Super League. Players will now have the luxury of speedy recoveries, where instead of a mistreated injury that could take months to heal, they now have the tools to take better care of said injuries.