Apollo Hospital Muscat and Oman Cricket sign agreement for healthcare partner

MUSCAT: Apollo Hospital Muscat signed an agreement with Oman Cricket as a healthcare partner recently. The agreement was signed officially by V T Saileshwaran, Managing Director of Apollo Hospital and Pankaj Khimji, Chairman, Oman Cricket.

“We are extremely grateful to the management of Apollo Hospitals for collaborating with Oman Cricket as its official Healthcare Partner and supporting our efforts to promote Oman as a sporting destination,” said Pankaj who signed the agreement on behalf of OC.

V T Saileshwaran said, “We have a strong team in sports medicine and we are happy to join Oman Cricket, the official governing body of the cricket sport in Oman in making the sport reach and maintain its international standards in technical level by providing the best of medical support.”

K P Shobha, Chief Operating Officer, Apollo Hospital Muscat said, “We offer approximately thirty specialty clinics and we can proudly claim that we are one of the hospitals in the Sultanate, offering regular super specialty consultation clinics under the expertise of visiting doctors from India, Germany and Jordan in the field of Spine, Orthopaedics, Urogynaecology, Urology and Neurosurgery”.

“Most players are prone to what is called as on field injuries which would need primary healthcare attention — from preliminary examinations to clear the player basically if they are to fit enough to proceed with the game. In case of a sprain or ligament tear, the players would be shifted to the hospital with immediate management of the injury. Whatever the injury is we have the facilities to manage the treatments,” said Dr Raghavan, Orthopaedic Surgeon.

Dr Saseendar Shanmugasundaram, Orthopaedic and Sports surgeon, says the most common injuries comprise of ligament tears of the knee (ACL, PCL, meniscus tears, shoulder dislocations (Bankart tear), as well as ankle ligament tears. “Injuries from cricket can range from minor to major — can be finger injuries, or sometimes can be Knee or shoulder dislocations. We manage all these injuries with a goal of getting them back to sports performance at the earliest.”

While M Vijay Kaliswaran MPT (Sports) MIAP, sports physiotherapist, says “We have assigned a designated sports medicine specialty team to take care of the players when they arrive here during the matches. We also have an efficient on field medical team who will be on constant contact with the hospital team. On field injuries will be attended to on priority with our ambulance ready to pick the players and bring them to the hospital.”