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Lovemore Dube, Zimpapers Sports Hub
JOSEPH Rego, the grassroots cricket development exponent based in Bulawayo is recuperating at a Mangalore Hospital in India after surgery carried out on Monday.
The president and board chairman of the prestigious Old Mutual Academy of Cricket Excellence, suffered from acute abdominal pain and bleeding and was rushed to a high-profile Multi-Speciality hospital in the Indian Province of Mangalore on Monday.
The academy’s media department announced the latest on Rego this Tuesday morning.
“Bulawayo’s celebrated sports management icon underwent a three-hour surgery for stent removal and the crushing of a large 15mm kidney stone through a procedure called RIRS.
“It is a modern-day approach technology performed by laser. He was operated by one of India’s most well-known urologists and surgeon Dr. Ashok Pandit and his team of specialists and has been recuperating at the post-operative theatre at the famous Yenopaya Hospital in Mangalore. He is being monitored by a team of doctors and professionals,” read part of the statement
RIRS the modern day high technology surgery also known as retrograde intra-renal surgery is a minimally invasive procedure to remove kidney stones by passing a ureteroscope through the natural urinary track that bursts kidney stones into small fragments for removal through a laser with no external incisions resulting in a fast cure.
The surgeon inserts a flexible ureteroscope through the urethra into the bladder and then navigates it into the ureter in a retrograde direction. The scope has a camera allowing the doctor to see into the kidney.
A thin laser fibre is passed through the scope to burst the stones into tiny sand-like particles. These particles are removed by tiny baskets or forceps.
“Rego is expected to be discharged within a week as he has been progressing well,” said his team.
The country’s celebrated sports management icon along with his partner, and Politburo member Elifasi Mashaba, will soon be launching the gigantic global transformational vision for the growth and development for sports in Zimbabwe in honour of the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Mnangagwa.
The high-profile national sport development initiative will etch the name of President Mnangagwa in the hearts of every sports loving child in Zimbabwe, leaving a lasting legacy of his enduring dream of a better future for the kids, Zimbabwe and Vision 2030 which has sport playing a significant role in employment creation towards an upper middle class.
