Star cricketer Rishabh Pant was on Wednesday shifted out of a private hospital in Dehradun for further treatment in Mumbai, sources said. Pant, 25, was under treatment at Max Hospital in Dehradun since December 30 following a horrific car accident when he was driving down from Delhi to his hometown Roorkee but lost control on NH-58 highway and hit the divider.
A plastic surgery had been done on his forehead for the cuts he suffered in the accident. There was pain in his right leg due to a ligament injury suffered in the accident, sources said. Doctors were waiting for the pain in his leg to subside while conducting an MRI scan, they added.
"Rishabh is being shifted to Mumbai for diagnosis and treatment of his ligament injuries and decide upon the further course of action. He is expected to be under the supervision of BCCI-empanelled renowned sports orthopaedic Dr Dinshaw Pardiwala. If there is advice for surgery, a call will be taken if it will happen in the UK or USA," a senior BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
Pant, 25, survived a horrific car accident when he was driving down from Delhi to his hometown Rourkee but lost control on NH-58 highway and hit the divider. Pant sustained cuts on his forehead, a severely-bruised back along with injuries in his knee and ankle.
While most injuries are superficial, the worrying factor will be the ankle and knee as he got treated at Max, Dehradun. However, being a centrally-contracted BCCI cricketer, his injury treatment was the board's prerogative.
The MRIs of his injured knee and ankle couldn't be performed as there was extensive swelling and hence the degree of tear is yet to be ascertained.
However, it is understood that any sports-related injury diagnosis and prognosis for a centrally-contracted cricketer will be done by BCCI's list of doctors and the rehabilitation and recuperation will be managed by the Sports and Medical Science team at NCA led by Dr Nitin Patel.