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Sangrur: Hakam Bhattal, gold medalist of the Asian Games and recipient of the prestigious Dhyan Chand Award, is currently battling kidney and liver disease and has received no government attention, let alone of his support. [19659002] Admitted to a private Sangrur hospital in Punjab, and with a tiny pension of seven thousand dollars a month, Bhattal needs some support from the government for better health care.
Hakam Bhattal, gold medalist at the Asian Games and winner of the Dhyan Chand Award, is admitted to a Sangrur hospital for kidney and liver conditions. His wife says, "We are poor people, the government should at least help those who are laurels for the nation. The Government does not appreciate the athletes #Punjab pic.twitter.com/x2Z27LHQHK
– ANI (@ANI) July 29, 2018
S Addressing to ANI, his wife said the government does not care much about athletes, only taking care of them for as long as they win medals.
"How will people be encouraged to play sports if no one even checks out an athlete who has won two gold medals? We are not rich and we have no land, it is difficult to get good medical care, "said Bhattal's wife
gold medalist at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok and at the Asian Athletics Championships of 1979. In Tokyo, Bhattal also received the Dhyan Chand Award for all of his achievements in sports and games, in August 2008, by President Pratibha Patil
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