MK Kaushik (Photograph Credit score: Twitter)
The 66-year-old Kaushik, was a member of the 1980 Moscow Olympics gold-medal profitable Indian crew, had examined optimistic for the dreaded virus final month.
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Hockey India (HI) on Thursday stated it should switch Rs 5 lakh to assist in the therapy of former India participant and coach M Okay Kaushik who’s preventing the battle in opposition to COVID-19 in a metropolis nursing house right here. The 66-year-old Kaushik, a member of the 1980 Moscow Olympics gold-medal profitable Indian crew, had examined optimistic for the dreaded virus final month.
“Hockey India will switch Rs 5.00 Lacs to the Hospital the place Mr M Okay Kaushik Hockey Olympian is being handled in Delhi on opening of Lockdown in Delhi on Monday tenth Could, Mr Eshan Kaushik Son of Mr M Okay Kaushik has been informed about it on cellphone,” HI stated in a press release. Regardless of exhibiting signs, Kaushik’s RTPCR and RAT exams had returned unfavorable on April 17. Nonetheless, a CT scan on chest on and pneumonia attributable to COVID was detected every week later.
“Since then he has been hospitalized and his situation is between, neither steady nor severe. His oxygen degree drops drastically at night time which is a significant problem,” Eshan had informed PTI. Kaushik had coached each the senior women and men groups. Beneath his teaching, India males’s crew had gained an Asian Video games in Bangkok in 1998.
Additionally, Indian ladies crew had gained bronze medal on the Doha Asian Video games in 2006 beneath his teaching. He was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1998, earlier than being bestowed with the Dronacharya award in 2002. India is battling a devastating second wave of COVID-19 pandemic which has been killing over 3,000 folks on a regular basis.
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