Dubai: The BCCI, in collaboration with its medical service partner VPS Healthcare, will conduct over 30,000 RT-PCR testings on all players, support personnel, and other stakeholders during the next 31 games of the IPL in the United Arab Emirates(UAE).
The governing body will have the assistance of VPS Healthcare, a Dubai-based company that will be in charge of the medical service which will provide emergency treatments of players, sports medicine experts, and air ambulance support.
Nursing and medical staff will be housed in the same hotel as the players so that players need not leave the IPL bio-bubble for any form of a medical emergency.
RT-PCR testing will be done every third day in the rescheduled IPL, rather than every fifth day as it was in the last edition in the UAE.
Two medical teams consisting of doctors, nurses, paramedics, and laboratory technicians will be assigned to each stadium for every fixture. Also, VPS Healthcare has managed to complete testing for over 750 hotel staff across 14 hotels in Dubai and Abu Dhabi before the arrival of the players.
In fact, it is learnt that the healthcare company has the capacity to conduct 2,000 PCR tests for the IPL each day in around 6-8 hours. The testings though have already started on August 13 on players of the Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings.
