Allicock was dehydrated

Oct 13, 2022 Sports

By Rawle Toney

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Keevin Allicock was dehydrated, according to medical reports, team Guyana’s Chef de Mission said in a report yesterday.

Kaieteur News was the first and only media entity to report Allicock’s fate following his inability to make the 57kg weight needed for his semi-finals clash against Colombia’s Jean Carlos Pachito, as the Guyanese pugilist took ill to chest pains.

President of the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation, Attorney-at-law Keavon Bess, via a release, explained that about 11:45pm on October 10after the Guyanese delegation returned from Nicolette Fernandes’ quarter finals, Allicock started to complain about a pain in his right chest area and eventually it became clear they needed the help of a doctor and an ambulance.

Keevin Allicock

Guyana did not travel to the South American Games in Paraguay with a medical personnel and according to Bess, the Panamanian Chef de Mission, who was in the lobby area, overheard the Guyanese team’s situation and sensing an emergency, she immediately summoned her doctors and one of them rushed to Keevin’s room and rendered vital assistance until the EMT and ambulance arrived.

Boxing Coach Terence Poole and Bess accompanied Allicock to the hospital in the ambulance and they were later joined by Garfield Wiltshire the manager of the Squash Team and Executive Member of the Guyana Olympic Association.

Bess said Allicock was attended to by a full team of medical personnel who carried out an electrocardiogram (ECG) and determined that his heart was working normally and was not under stress.

“His blood and urine samples were taken so that other tests could be carried out. After the results came back from the lab the doctors explained to the Boxing Coach that Keevin was extremely dehydrated to the extent that even his bones were lacking fluids, and this caused the pain in the chest and the difficulty in breathing,” Bess said in a statement.

Allicock, who said he was certain of a victory in his semi-finals, told Kaieteur News exclusively on Tuesday that he had trained the night before the weigh-in of his semis, adding, “I was so drained I felt like I was under my weight because my body was drained. I woke up in the morning around 6:00 something and I was .7 over my weight. I started training right there but I couldn’t make the weight because I was already drained.”

Allicock said he came down to 57.1kg, which was still above the weight required to enter the ring.

Though not attending the South American Games with a medical personnel, Bess reported that each member of Guyana’s delegation had travel insurance (health and other coverage) that was secured by the GOA before their departure, along with the Games Organizers’ health insurance coverage, to the tune of $10,000.00 USD, for each member of the delegation.

“Moreover, a listing of all of the hospitals have been provided to each delegation and most importantly all of the hospitals in the host City of Asuncion have been put on high alert to deal with any medical incidents relative to the games. Hence, the ambulance arrived at the host hotel in about five minutes after the emergency call was made and Keevin received immediate attention when he arrived at the La Costa Hospital,” Bess reported.

The team’s Chef de Mission said contact was made with Allicock’s family in Guyana, and they were reassured that he was recovering well and was out of harm’s way.

After about five hours, according to Bess, Allicock was discharged from the hospital and is currently recovering well and was even present with the rest of Team Guyana as Nicolette stormed into the women’s Squash Finals.

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