Union minister of civil aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday inaugurated the Centre for Sports Injury, a sports activities well being and wellness centre in Safdarjung Enclave in south Delhi, and mentioned that it was essential for the nation that extra such centres emerged.

“It is important for our country that such centres with cutting edge technology emerge… I hope that in the days to come the centre grows. Such centres of excellence are important because many a times our sportsmen and women do not tend to injuries until they get complicated. Such diagnostic and surgery capabilities show how far India has come,” the minister mentioned in the course of the inauguration. The centre has been useful since January 1.

The 20-bed tertiary care orthopaedic and sports activities harm facility, positioned within the coronary heart of south Delhi, has specialist surgeons, musculoskeletal radiologists and sports activities physiotherapists with worldwide experience and expertise within the area of orthopaedic surgical procedure and sports activities harm.

The first flooring of the centre has outpatient consulting rooms that can provide full evaluation and administration of orthopaedic circumstances and sports activities accidents with high-quality digital x-ray rooms, process rooms and orthotic braces and pattern assortment hubs for sufferers.

The second flooring provides devoted sports activities imaging via high-tech MRI machines, which have an open magnet design that emits much less noise and is a boon for sufferers with claustrophobia. These machines are designed to conduct standing, tilting, weight-bearing and true movement pictures, which makes the analysis of sports activities accidents extra correct.

Dr Pushpinder Singh Bajaj, senior orthopaedic and sports activities surgeon and the individual behind the centre, mentioned that the ability will present inexpensive, high-quality orthopaedic care to sufferers, including that sufferers will have the ability to get holistic care, from analysis to assessments, scans, surgical procedures, and rehabilitation all beneath one roof.

“This centre is the result of work put in for several years… It has been set up to provide specialised care to our sportspersons under one roof. While the facilities are based on the latest technologies, we will make it accessible at affordable rates,” Dr Bajaj mentioned.

The centre additionally has an orthopaedic and sports activities physiotherapy facility within the basement the place non-invasive ache administration and post-operative rehabilitation will probably be performed. “We also have an integrated operating theatre complex, which is technologically the most advanced surgical suite system available and is also intelligently equipped with an audio-visual (AV) transmission facility,” he added.