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Jul

Special On Dhoni`s Birthday

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Amitabh Srivastava

(An unabashed Dhoni Bhakt)

I join thousands of fans of the legendary MS Dhoni today to wish him years of good health and good cheer as he celebrates his 43rd birthday today.

Born on this 7th July 1981, numerologists would suggest that his luck stems from Number 7. We all know he wears jersey number 7 in the field and his friends call him MS which again comes up to 7.

Even though Dhoni is a very religious and superstitious person (there were pictures of him sacrificing animals in a temple before important matches) but attributing all his success to Luck or numerology would be a grave injustice to a man who has mesmerized his fans even since he started playing cricket.

One of them was Pakistan President Parvez Musharraf who had fondly asked Dhoni who had long manes of hair that time, never to cut his hair.

My little knowledge of cricket tells me that the biggest asset of MS is his appetite for taking risks.

This was most clearly evident in his first outing as T20 captain in the T20 World Championship in 2007 when India was playing against Pakistan in the finals and Misabh ul Haq was in full form.

Remember that last over in the final match which he handed over to Joginder Sharma.

Joginder Sharma turned out the man for the occasion and performed a miracle.

Who remembers Joginder before or after that match?

This fighter quality was also much in evidence when India went to play Australia in 2008 under his captaincy. Australia was playing under Ricky Ponting who had made Australia the most unbeatable team in the world and which indulged in sledging to bring down the morale of the opposition parties.

Dhoni’s team not only fought them on cricketing skills but gave them the sledging as good as they got.

Harbhajan Singh was involved in that series in an incident in Sydney where he was alleged to have called Andrew Symonds a Monkey which is a racist term. Ponting was up in arms demanding ban on Bhajji but he escaped stringent action after a disciplinary committee comprising Sachin Tendulkar and some Australian stalwarts heard Bhajji.

We don’t know exactly what transpired there but Bhajji came out and told reporters that he did not call him Monkey but instead had had said “Teri Ma Ki” a colloquial Punjabi abuse.

Since that series. Bhajji escaped with a one test ban but after that it was a downhill journey for the rough and tough Australians.

I seriously believe that Dhoni could put Ponting in his place because he was a bigger ‘Punter’or Gambler(the nickname given to him) Ponting.

That Dhoni has so many records to his name having won the World Championships in all three formats of the game is already known. But today I would like to share a story I am privy to about the human qualities of Dhoni that most people may not be aware of.

This is a story of a school boy Shourya from Lucknow who received an unexpected gift form Dhoni.

Shourya had come back home, having survived a very rare Covid Infection after 65 days at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) in Hyderabad.

At the close of year 2021 when many us lost our near and dear ones to the dreaded Corona it was the year when the system had totally broken down.

Patients were being turned away from hospitals, beds were not available, oxygen was not available, life-saving drugs like Remedivisir were being sold in black (which the WHO revealed much later was

(useless) and one was scared of picking up the phone. But there was some good news in this black scenario.

This news reinforces our faith in the dedication and efficiency of the medical profession in the country.

Shourya had been infected with a multi-organ failure due to a Covid infection in Lucknow and was rushed to Lucknow's Midland Healthcare and Research Centre where doctors tried their best to revive him for while his parents went around from one temple to another praying for their younger child.

And as if to answer their prayers someone suggested that the boy should be moved to the KIMS in Hyderabad, which is considered a specialist in treatment and transplant of lungs.

Under strict supervision and care of a team of doctors he was rushed to Hyderabad in an ambulance.

Given his precarious condition he was kept in total isolation and the relatives staying in a hotel nearby could only see him fight his battle alone via video conferencing.

It took as many as 65 days for the team at KIMS Hospital to declare that they had ensured the full recovery of the boy who had been on ventilator support for more than two months.

Doctors explained that Shourya needed Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy. This, they claim is the longest time any paediatric patient had been put on ECMO support for survival in the whole of Asia. Shourya had been on life support, utilising a veno-venous ECMO for over 65 days.

According to a report published in India Today, "The doctors closely monitored other organ functions, enhanced nutrition, physical rehabilitation, and advanced lung recovery manoeuvres while the boy was on ECMO.

Critical Covid illness leads to multiple comorbidities, muscle weakness caused by medications used to treat the primary condition, repeated infections in the bloodstream, and secondary infections in their airways over and above dense non-resolving pneumonia. This is by far the longest reported ECMO bridge to recovery in a child for severe COVID pneumonia,” said Dr Sandeep Attawar of the hospital.

When Shourya arrived at KIMS, Dr Sandeep Attawar and the transplant team at KIMS Hospitals received the patient with his lungs fully affected and they were unable to supply any oxygen to his body.

This was a rare case where a child with such severe lung infection has been revived without lung transplant, doctors claimed.

“With ECMO support, his lung rested, gradually healed itself and regained enough function to be able to support him,” said Dr Vijil.

The first 40 days in Hyderabad were sheer   trauma for his distraught parents because there seemed no change in his condition as they watched helplessly.

Rajiv Sharan and Renu Srivastava the parents of the child now recall how terrified they were of even receiving the phone of the doctors because there was total darkness and uncertainty around.

This traumatic situation continued for full 40 days and it was much later that his hands and body movements became visible as he had to undergo physiotherapy sessions to be able to restore strength to his limbs after lying in one position for so many months.

Says his thrilled grandfather CM Srivastava, a former Principal Secretary in Uttar Pradesh,"All credit to the doctors at KIMS who worked with full dedication holding daily meetings to discuss his case till they achieved this miracle."

But on reaching home Shourya had a big surprise waiting him.

In a TV interview in Hyderabad he had mentioned that he was a big fan of MS Dhoni.

Within days of his reaching home he received a jersey of CSK and a cap from the Franchise led by MS.

How many world class players would take pains to replicate this effort to boost their litte fans?

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