Doping: AK draws rules on athletes' treatment

Kenya is working to be removed from the Anti-Doping Watch-list ahead of the IAAF World Athletics Championships that run in London on August 4-13.

Yesterday, Athletics Kenya unveiled a raft of regulations that will govern elite athletes seeking medical attention from Kenya Doctors Network –a group of six doctors located in different parts of the country who will attend to elite athletes’ medication.

Jackson Tuwei, the AK President, said the doctors were interviewed and approved by IAAF.

“They will form Kenya Doctors Network and they will be attending to our athletes, particularly the elite ones,” said Tuwei.

The doctors are Dr Victor Bargoria, Dr Muhindi David, Dr Muithya Ngundo, Dr Fredrick Kirui, Dr Wyclife Kosgei Kipkurui and Dr Castro Mugalla.

AK presented 108 elite athletes to the IAAF in which they will seek medical attention from the six medics.

The regulations read in part: “The athletes or any of them must go consultancy services of the Doctors in the network whenever they have medical issues; any time they visit the doctors, they must identify themselves properly as being an elite athlete in the programme before they are attended to.”