Baljit leaves for US for post-operative treatment
August 4th, 2009 - 8:36 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) India’s hockey goalkeeper Baljit Singh, whose right eye was operated after being hit by a golf ball in a practice session, is flying to the United States for post-operative treatment at John Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore.
Baljit, 28, is being accompanied on the flight Tuesday night by Kiran Gopalakrishnan, a member of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) team that performed surgery on him last month.
He will be examined by the world renowned eye specialist Robert Morris at Alabama next week, Hockey India (HI) said in a statement here Tuesday.
Baljit was badly injured in his right eye after being hit by a golf ball while training at the Balevadi Sports Complex in Pune. He was immediately brought here and admitted at AIIMS where a four-hour emergency operation was conducted by a team of surgeons.
- Baljit asks sports ministry to fund his eye treatment - Jan 14, 2010
- Critical eye surgery for India's hockey goalkeeper - Jul 18, 2009
- Goalkeeper Baljit's eye condition continues to be serious - Jul 19, 2009
- Gill pledges support to injured hockey player Baljit Singh - Jul 20, 2009
- HI presents Rs.2.5 lakhs to Baljit Singh - Jan 15, 2010
- Sports Minister Maken will try to convince Negre - Sep 12, 2011
- AIIMS docs on hunger protest for physician's comeback - Jul 12, 2011
- Virtually entire hockey squad in WSH list - Nov 17, 2011
- World hockey looking at India as major hub for the sport - Feb 27, 2012
- Six top Indian hockey players pull out of WSH - Nov 30, 2011
- FIH gives a month to HI and IHF to work out merger formula - Feb 26, 2012
- Azad to decide on sacked AIIMS doctor's reinstatement (Lead) - Jul 12, 2011
- AIIMS doctor pilots India's first robot-assisted surgery (Feature, With Images) - May 06, 2010
- Hapless India go down 0-5 to Zambia - Nov 29, 2011
- Lucknow doctors to head two new AIIMS - Sep 04, 2011
Tags: aiims, all india institute of medical sciences, baljit singh, emergency operation, eye specialist, golf ball, hopkins medical center, india institute, john hopkins medical, john hopkins medical center, kiran, New Delhi, operative treatment, practice session, pune, robert morris, Sports, tuesday night
