Harsh Vardhan to lay down foundation stone of National Sports injury Centre

"Similarly, in 2010 we admitted 163 patients in the hospital which increased to 34 27 patients in 2018," he said.

The health ministry has sought to increase the bed strength from 42 to 156 with additional manpower, advanced equipment, and greater infrastructure. The new facility will have a major focus on pre-habilitation and rehabilitation for a sportsperson.

The new facility will have six OTs, 156 beds capacity, super-specialty surgical facility. It will also have high-performance laboratories like- biochemical laboratory with 3D motion analysis and isokinetic, swimming pool for underwater training, dry & wet laboratory for training, and rehabilitation.

"Probably, it would be a first institute dedicated to sports medicine offering teaching and training to budding doctors. Young doctors can do academic practice on dry and wet laboratories, said the official adding that five senior faculties will join us.

Health experts say that in India there are very few sports medicine centers. Due to a lack of expertise and knowledge in performing the procedures of anterior cruciate ligament and arthroscopic surgeries most of the sportsperson has to undergo revision surgeries.

The national Centre for sports medicine is likely to get operational by 2021.

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