Football Therapy for Das Munshi

Doctors at Apollo Hospital, Delhi, attending to former Union Minister Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, are trying football therapy on the man who has been in a coma since October 2008 following a massive stroke.

Doctors at Apollo Hospital, Delhi, attending to former Union Minister Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, are trying football therapy on the man who has been in a coma since October 2008 following a massive stroke. Das Munshi, who had been president of the All India Football Federation for nearly 20 years, is a die-hard fan. Doctors at the hospital have put up a LCD television set in his cabin on which matches  are shown live to him. During the last World Cup, Das Munshi had been in Germany cheering the Brazilian team. “The idea is that his brain cells may respond to images of his favourite team in his favourite game,” says Partha Bhowmick, Das Munshi’s childhood friend.

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