The state education and sports minister Arvind Pandey inaugurated a sports injury centre at Max Hospital Dehradun on Monday. The centre dedicated to diagnosis, rehabilitation and treating sports- related injuries would be run by a specialised team of orthopaedic surgeons.
Speaking on the occasion, Pandey said that for any sportsperson, an injury on the field is very unfortunate. “It is good that a dedicated centre for sports related injury is now available in Dehradun,” he added.
The vice- president and unit head, Max Hospital, Sandeep Singh Tanwar said that the hospital has become the first one to have a special sports injury centre in Uttarakhand.