Kick-boxing Features 34 Bouts 3 Sustain Injury

Kick-boxing sports is featuring 34 bouts at the on-going 17th National Sports Festival, out of which about 30 bouts have taken place, with only three cases of minor injuries recorded.

The medical team of the festival attached to kickboxing that is holding at city hall, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt said no serious casualty has been recorded, contrary to widespread expectation since the game has to do with kicking one’s opponent.

The head of the medical team and Consultant-General Surgeon at the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), Port Harcourt, Dr. S. O. Wokocha, said “By God’s grace, up to this extent, we’ve not had  any’ we (only) have some minor cases – about three athletes.”

Dr Wokocha said, the event is slated to feature about 34 bouts in two stages – a pair going on simultaneously in each of the two stages, adding that so far they’ve not gone half way.

Wokocha said, they have two medical stands that numbers over 26 medical officers who are ready to attend to any of the athletes who may sustain injury.

He assured that the team is ready “to give medical surveillance to the athletes in this particular event (because) it’s a violent sport, which has been thrilling actually, although some of the athletes are very amateur.”

Justus Awaji