Internet Desk: Athlete OP Jaisha is confident that she can start her training next week having recovered well from H1N1 fever which she contracted during the Rio Olympics even though the SAI doctor has advised her a month’s rest.
Jaisha had returned from Rio with fever and body ache in third week of this month and was hospitalized at Fortis Hospital on 26 August after she was tested positive for H1N1, couple of days after another athlete Sudha Singh was found to be suffering from the same disease. The athlete had competed in the women’s marathon in Rio Olympics.
Jaisha said she knows her body well and is feeling good and ready for forthcoming competitions, including National Open Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games. “I know my body very well. I am feeling good and ready to forthcoming competitions including 2018 Commonwealth Games and the National Open Athletics Championships to be held at Lucknow, beginning from 25 September to 28 September,” she said.
Neither any doctor has advised her to take a month’s rest nor she is on medicines anymore, Jaisha said. “No doctor has advised me for a month’s rest and I am not on medicines for now,” she said.