Sports minister meets ex-players to plan Bhowmick’s treatment

Kolkata: Subhas Bhowmick, former footballer and one of India’s most celebrated coaches, is not keeping well.
The 72-year-old has been under treatment at a city nursing room for the past few days. He is learnt to be suffering from kidney-related complications and chest pain. A diabetic, Bhowmick had undergone a coronary bypass surgery 23 years ago.
Former players and officials from the city’s three major clubs called on sports minister Aroop Biswas at his office on Friday and held an emergency meeting about the next course of Bhowmick’s treatment.It was decided that he would be shifted from the nursing home at Ekbalpur to a super-speciality hospital on the EM Bypass for better treatment.
The director of the Bypass-based hospital, who attended the meeting at the New Secretariat Building, has already set up a medical team to evaluate the option of having a kidney transplant done on Bhowmick.
He has been on dialysis for the past few months.
Former India internationals like Bhaskar Ganguly, Manoranjan Bhattacharya, Bikash Panji, Bidesh Bose, Manas Bhattacharya as well as senior officials from East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting were present at the meeting with the sports minister. The IFA president Ajit Banerjee was also present.
All three clubs as well as the IFA have vowed to stand by and help Bhowmick in his treatment.