The PCB’s chief medical officer Dr Sohail Saleem has resigned to the board after a radical investigation by an impartial three-member Medical Committee revealed that he did not “clinically diagnose and investigate” quick bowler Ihsanullah’s injury within the preliminary stage.
The three-member committee comprising Prof. Rana Dilawaiz Nadeem, Dr Mumraiz Naqshband and Prof. Javed Akram which was tasked to analyze the dealing with of Ihsanullah’s injury has concluded that the pacer’s proper elbow ache was “not addressed, treated and operated appropriately”.
The committee held Dr Saleem chargeable for the “delay in reaching the clinical diagnoses and investigations” and likewise talked about that the Multan Sultans speedster “did not receive a formal rehabilitation process as required by his condition”.
“The committee concludes that Ihsanullah’s condition of right elbow pain was not addressed, treated and operated appropriately. There was a delay in reaching the clinical diagnoses and investigations. He did not receive a formal rehabilitation process as required by his condition,” a press launch issued by the PCB learn.
“His surgical procedure was deliberate hurriedly with none specialist evaluate and preoperative evaluation.
“The surgeon really helpful by Director of Medical and Sports Sciences was inappropriate, missing the teachers and expertise within the discipline.
“Postoperatively, Mr Ihsanullah was not absolutely compliant to the rehabilitation protocols as alleged by the PCB officers. He continues to have medial elbow ache together with shoulder dyskinesia. He has important elbow stiffness for which surgical procedure just isn’t suggested at present as per recommendation of nationwide and worldwide applicable consultants within the speciality shoulder and elbow.”
Moreover, the committee has suggested the 21-year-old quick bowler to bear “aggressive physiotherapy and rehabilitation of right elbow and shoulder” and talked about that surgical procedure could be the final resort if he “does not recover in six to 12 months”.
Ihsanullah final performed for Pakistan in an ODI recreation towards New Zealand on April 29, 2023.
