A 17-year-old Paarl Boys High School student is in ICU following a 'freak' head injury during a schoolboy rugby match in Pretoria. The pupil is in a stable condition but has yet to regain consciousness after four-and-a-half-hour emergency surgery.
General view of Paarl Boys High School First XV's rugby team.
A Paarl Boys High School student is fighting for his life in ICU following a"freak" head injury he suffered during a rugby match at an Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool rugby festival on Tuesday. "He had bleeding on the brain and took quite a serious knock," the school’s First XV rugby coach, Sean Erasmus, said."The video doesn’t allow us to see anything [foul] on it that happened. We do see him carrying the ball and taking a bit of a knock.
"The next 48 hours are very crucial because he’s in an induced coma, so we must just pray and hope everything will be alright and that there’s no brain damage or anything like that. "The doctor said it was very severe. The actual hit to the head was almost as severe as a car accident.Rugby safety has been high on the agenda following World Rugby’s recommendation that its member nations lower the legal tackle limit from the shoulder to the middle of the chest.
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