Imran Bisthamin regains consciousness

By Jatila KARAWITA

RUGBY: Dynamic Kandy SC number eight Imran Bisthamin has regained his consciousness following a three-week long battle to recover from a freak head injury, his club-mate and former Sri Lanka rugby captain Sanjeewa Jayasinghe told Sunday Observer. Jayasinghe said that having visited his club colleague at the Kandy General Hospital (Teaching) the latter's condition had become stable for the first-time in three-weeks after an initial operation and subsequent treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital. The former Sri Lanka rugby captain said that the gifted back-row forward would at best will need to be in the ICU for a further three-weeks according to doctors treating the ex-St. Anthony's College, Katugastota captain.

Imran Bisthamin on immensely talented player met with a career-threatening head injury on November 22 following a night out with friends and a resultant fall from a shopping complex in Kandy.