Shoaib Akhtar’s Skin Disease Immaturely Disclosed By PCB

by Owais Ehsan on May 22, 2009

There are times when things need to kept quiet, somethings are private and not to be told in mass media - but such things just doesnot happen to be so important in the corridors of Pakistan Cricket Board. In a press conference PCB disclosed the skin disease Shoaib Akhtar has been suffering, due to which he wont be able to participate in the upcoming 20-20 worldcup in England.

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The PCB’s unusually graphic press release said that a three-member medical panel appointed by the PCB had found that Shoaib was suffering from “genital viral warts and electrofulgration [a surgical procedure] was done on May 12, 2009.”

Here is What Kamran Abbasi(Famous Blogger for Cricinfo) Has to say on this

Now, it isn’t a great surprise that Shoaib Akhtar is once more unfit to play in a tournament that he has been selected for. It may not be a great surprise to some who have tut-tutted over Shoaib’s lifestyle that he has picked up a dose of genital warts. Nonetheless, like every patient, Shoaib deserves his privacy and today’s public announcement is way too much information.

It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the PCB’s press release is clearly designed to cause Shoaib the maximum embarrassment. It is wrong to divulge personal medical information in this way and, unless it was done with Shoaib’s consent, it is a breach of medical ethics. This is an embarrassing illness that should embarrass the PCB about its behaviour.

We believe, that there was no need to give out such information and PCB should have remained in its ethical grounds when announcing such information in public.