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    Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

    <DIV class=scrolling id=insideDiv style="PADDING-RIGHT: 21px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><DIV class=HTMLTitle><SPAN id=Ar0320000 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Medic alert! </SPAN></DIV><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><DIV class=HTMLSubTitle><SPAN id=Ar0320001 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">ISSA warns schools to protect injured ’ballers or else... </SPAN></DIV><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><DIV class=HTMLByline><SPAN id=Ar0320006 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">BY VAUGHN DAVIS Observer staff reporter </SPAN><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"></DIV><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><DIV class=HTMLContent style="OVERFLOW: auto"><SPAN id=Ar0320002 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
    <SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">THE Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) has indicated that it may have to crack the whip over the backs of schools that fail in providing medical personnel at associationsanctioned football matches. </SPAN>
    <SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">ISSA, the governing body of high school sports in Jamaica, was responding to a Jamaica Observer story carried in yesterday’s edition which highlighted a case where a Herbert Morrison football player was left to suffer on the sidelines after dislocating his hip in a game against Grange Hill on Saturday because qualified medical help was not available. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0320003 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
    <SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">President of ISSA Clement Radcliffe said yesterday that sanctions may be in order for those schools that fall down on their responsibilities to provide trained medics to support their players if the need arises. </SPAN>
    <SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“Well, maybe we have to go there (penalise schools)... the schools have to take adequate measures to ensure that medical personnel are available,” Radcliffe warned. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0320004 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
    <SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Radcliffe also hastened to say that ISSA was not legally obligated to provide medical assistance to the athletes participating in the high school competitions. The individual schools, he stated, were responsible for securing medical workers for their own athletes. </SPAN>
    <SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“In the rules of engagement, it is clearly stated that ISSA is not responsible for students in these competitions. ISSA is indemnified against all such actions. I stand by that,” Radcliffe stressed. </SPAN>
    <SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">George Forbes, ISSA’s competitions co-ordinator, also reinforced the point that individual schools are responsible for providing medical staff at their inter-secondary school sporting events. </SPAN>
    <SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“Schools are supposed to have their medical personnel there in addition to ISSA having personnel there… we don’t expect the schools to have stretchers and so on, so we provide that, and we have doctors, but the schools are supposed to have medical personnel in addition to ISSA,” he said. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0310201 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:
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    RE: Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

    Some school will be better able to do this on their own. I think ISSA should lead by touching base with...for example, the Junior Doctors.

    Some years ago the RBSC had gotten in touch with ISSA - Clement Radcliffe -on the matter of having medical personal within reach/putting in place a system whereby medical assistance could be had...in fact, Clement Radcliffe had promised he would have taken it to ISSA's controlling group and would have gotten in touch with our "Rico". That died!
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      RE: Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

      <DIV>The news media keep mentioning that Dr. Paul Auden was "luckily" at the Frome-Munro match. Well, not exactly. Dr. Auden is not only a Munro Old Boy but a member of the board. He was there supporting his alma mater.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>And we should not forget that Cornwall College player who suffered a serious injury while playing Munro in a preseason friendly. "Luckily", Coach Weatherly was on hand to offer some assistance before he was taken to Black River Hospital by a Cornwall-Munro old boy, Peter Lee.</DIV>


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      • #4
        RE: Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

        Now, now, I think the ISSA body is taking an "high almighty" approach. As Karl pointed out, some schools will have no problem in having medical personnel present, but for MANY schools it is going to be a PROBLEM.

        I would expect that ISSA as the governing body would try to work with these schools and health personnel in identifying and putting into effect that infrastructure. Some school administrations don't even give minimal assistance tothe football team, so this could mean the death of football at certain institutions and the stagnation of growing and developingTALENT

        Can ISSA, JFF, SDC and other civic organizations brainstorm and HELP!!
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          RE: Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

          <DIV>ISSA needs to rethink this one. Why should schools like STETHS be burdened with this responsibility just because their good grounds are used a lot in the second round? They already did their part in fixing their grounds, others need to pitch in! </DIV><DIV></DIV>


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          • #6
            RE: Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

            Scape goating as usual, Inter-Zone and Ben Francis KO games are run by ISSA as they delegate people to collect at the gates unlike the first round when it is the home schools who collect.



            For example at Frome on the weekend, who was to provide the medical personell???
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            • #7
              RE: Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

              hmmm... Radcliffe needs to stop talking like an ARSE!!
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                RE: Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

                Ever met him or spoken to him?????
                Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
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                • #9
                  RE: Since the original was ignored yesterday on the schoolboy forum

                  <DIV>Behave!</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>I like his recent stress on the academic part of things though, even though I have doubts about how credible his actions at Glenmuir have been in the past. He says those players who don't want anything to do with academics can join the JFF's U-21 competition and leave ISSA sports alone.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>Good!</DIV>


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