Pant transferred from ICU to private suite due to high risk of infection

• Rishabh Pant’s car collided with a road divider and caught fire.
• He has been shifted to a private suite from the ICU due to a high risk of infection.
• Pant was part of India’s Test squad that sealed victory over Bangladesh.

According to DDCA Director Shyam Sharma, injured India wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant has been moved from the ICU to a private suite due to a high danger of contracting an infection.

Pant, 25, sustained several injuries after his car hit with a road divider and caught fire on the Delhi-Dehradun highway early on Friday morning. In the Uttarakhand state’s Haridwar district, between Manglaur and Narsan, a horrifying automobile accident occurred.

Pant was brought to Saksham Hospital Multispecialty and Trauma Center before being transferred to Max Hospital in Dehradun. He was travelling in his Mercedes automobile from New Delhi to his birthplace of Roorkee.

“He’s fine right now and has been shifted to a private suite from the ICU. There are chances of an infection and that can catch up more, which is why he has been shifted to a private suite,” Sharma said

According to a formal statement released by the BCCI on Friday afternoon, Pant was injured in the automobile accident and now has two wounds on his forehead, a ligament damage in his right knee, as well as injuries to his right wrist, ankle, and toe and abrasions on his back.

A medical statement published later that evening stated that Pant’s brain and spine MRI test findings were normal. Pant also underwent plastic surgery, it was stated, to treat his facial wounds, lacerations, and abrasions.

Sharma responded when asked how Pant’s right knee and ankle ailments were progressing “As far as injuries to knee ligament and ankle are concerned, when the pain will reduce, then the BCCI will take a call on it. The team of doctors by the BCCI will decide (further course of treatment).”

Sharma also asked people not to visit Pant at the hospital because there is a high risk of infection.”When I went to meet him for the first time on Saturday, we were told that the visitors should not come as there are high chances of getting an infection.”

“His family is there, which is fine, as well as players who are coming to meet him. Yesterday, many high-ranking people came to meet him, but it is not helping anyone. I myself was there for just five minutes and then came out.”

“Just pray for him and his recovery. Don’t come to visit him. It is not for the players though; they can come and motivate him. The more his friends come, the better it is for him.”

Pant scored a match-winning 93 in the first innings of the second Test at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, helping India win the series 2-0 against Bangladesh a few days ago in Dhaka.

In the Indian T20I and ODI squads for the matches against Sri Lanka beginning on January 3 in Mumbai, he was not included.

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