A heartbreaking video has emerged in which former India cricketer Vinod Kambli is seen walking with a urine bag attached to his body at the Akruti Hospital in Thane. Kambli has been admitted in hospital since Saturday last week.
The 52-year-old Mumbai batter was admitted in Akruti Hospital with severe urine infection and it was later revealed by his doctor that he had clots in his brain. Kambli had spiked a fever earlier this week and as a result was moved to the ICU on Tuesday.
On Friday, a video of Kambli walking with a urine bag attached supported by hospital staff and his fans went viral on social media.
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Kambli has got support from Shiv Sena party and even Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde, has promised to help Kambli with Rs 5 lakh financially.
Meanwhile, Dr Vivek Dwivedi, who has been treating Kambli at the Akruti Hospital spoke to Vickey Lalwani on his YouTube channel giving an update on the Indian cricket star’s health. Dr Dwivedi revealed that Kambli might never be able to recover his full memory due to his brain clots.
“Yes, there is one condition. So, we call it NPH. But it will improve with the help of medicine. No surgeries are required. Neither further clots etc. Only with the help of medicine will it subside. So he will need a good rehabilitation. Rehabilitation means physiotherapy and nutritional support,” Dr Vivek Dwivedi, chief intensivist of Akruti Health City Hospital, said on Vickey Lalwani’s YouTube channel.
“He will need close monitoring. He will need rehabilitation, for which he will need money. He will need good physiotherapist twice a day, along with it he will need good nutritional support, speech therapy, there is some slurring. Rehabilitation is something which he will need. He will need good monitoring after discharge,” he added.
The doctor also said that Kambli is facing memory loss too. “Yes, there is a little bit of impairment of memory function also. Definitely, there is some impairment. Neurodegenerative changes are there. So again, with the help of time and good rehabilitation, he will probably start functioning normally again. But not like 100 per cent, but definitely he will achieve 80-90 per cent of the memory, that previous memory,” Dwivedi said.
“This happens. Earlier, he was ethanolic. Three-four months back he stopped alcohol and smoking. At that time, he was ethanolic. Sometimes, that can cause it (memory loss). At present there is complete abstinence of alcohol. There is now withdrawal symptom too.”
