How did Dwamena pass the heart test in Albania? The doctor who visited him: I didn't know his story!

2023-11-14 13:02:15Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
How did Dwamena pass the heart test in Albania? The doctor who visited him: I
Drini Bardhi/ Rafael Dwuamen

Doctor Drini Bardhi , the cardiologist who visited the Ghanaian footballer,  Rafael Dwuamen , who died on the field a few days ago from cardiac arrest, told "Procesin Sportiv" how the initial tests and examinations of the captain of Egnatia, who joined club a year ago.

The cardiologist said that in the initial tests Dwamena did well and that he presented no contraindications to not playing.

"I am the first to visit it. He appeared in my clinic on December 20 of last year. After hours, Dwamena appears, a boy I didn't know. I want to speak from the scientific side, what is called anamesis where the personal and family history of the athlete and what we find in the routine examinations.

He spoke good English, I spoke directly with him. It did not present anything special. It was a normal echo, there was a scar on the left side of the chest and I said 'did you have any problems? Do you faint?' 'No' he tells me. I say 'you put the camera on'. 'No' he tells me, 'I put on a device that records the heart rate for a longer time, I put it on and took it off because I didn't need it'.

We go to the next room for the 'stress test', I perform the 12-minute load test, which is enough time. There was no contraindication to not playing sports ," said Bardhi.

The doctor also said that it is not true that the Egnatia striker was accepted to play in Albania when other countries in Europe banned him, this according to him because Dwamena was negative in the initial tests.

"It is said that they banned him in Europe and let him play in Albania. It is not true, he has changed six teams that he has changed, it means that in the initial tests he was negative, otherwise how did they accept him? When the disease took hold, he went into cardiac arrest on the field, was put on a defibrillator, and was recommended by various teams not to play. They accepted him in Levante, he has played for a year. "Genetic cardiac diseases are not caught with the usual tests," says the doctor.

Asked by moderator Edi Manushi if Dwamena wanted to play football with all his heart, Bardhi answered 'yes'. He also reveals that he did not know the history with the heart that the 28-year-old had.

Manush i: With the heart he had, was Dwamena to play football?

Bardhi : Yes, definitely.

Manushi : What about the story that spoke about the heart?

Bardhi : Not at all. Where did I know?

Bardhi: In the interview with Andy Tufa, he said that he did not have a cardiac arrest, nor that he had a defibrillator and that he removed it.

Manush i: No one informed you?

Bardhi : None.

" As far as I know, the Egantia team is sponsored by a hospital, the tests I received were visited at the hospital. They have been submitted to the federation and I have severed relations. It is no longer my responsibility. The tests for the new championship have been done. I didn't see it alone ", the cardiologist added./ tch


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