An investigation into the death of a 14-year-old Indian-origin student-athlete at the Singapore Sports School, has revealed there was a safet🌺y lapse as his badminton coach failed to check on his well-being before leaving the track.
The coach has been served a notice of dismissal, according to a 🥃Channel News Asia reporꦅt on Saturday.
Pranav Madhaik, who was parᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt of the school's badminton academy and had aspired to be an Olympic champion, felt unwell following a 400-metre fitness time trial on October 5.
Pranav🌠 was taken to the National University Hospital and he died on Wednesday (October 11).
In a press release on Saturday, the Singapore Sports School laid out the timel🌳ine of events leading to the boy's death and the findings of the investigation.
After completing his time trial session on October 5 at about 6:26 p.m., Pranav repo🧜rted to the badminton coach that he felt unwell.
Time trials and conditioning sessi𝓡ons are a regular part of studen𝔍t-athletes’ training plans, according to the school.
The coach t🌠old Pranav to rest as he had previously reported being unwell but recovered after resting.
Pranav rested at the side of the starting point while the coach ♓attended to the time-trial data on his phone.
He subsequently left the track to brief other student-athletes on competi💛tion matters, not realising that Pra🧸nav was still resting at the same location.
The coach then left the school premises af🅺ter the briefing.
The ba🍃dminton coach should have checked on Pranav to ensure his well-being before leaving the track🥀, the school said.
He did not account for all his student-athletes before dismissing them from training, which was not in acco🅘rdance with the school’s safe🌞ty protocols.
"The Singapore Sports School takes this matter seriously. The coach has been served a notꦏice of dismissal," it said.
"The school is also reviewing and strengthening all its safety protocols, and emphasised to coaches and staff theౠ importance of adhering to the💎m."
ღWhile Pranav was resting, he interacted with two other groups oꦛf student-athletes that walked by.
A few of them approached him and, according to their accou﷽nts, did not notice🎉 anything unusual with Pranav at the time.
The last group interacted with Pranav at around 6:35 p.m. About five minutes later, a track and field coach ♒who was walking by noticed him at the side of the track and approached him to enquire about his꧟ condition.
The coach asked a student-athlete to get water for the teenager. After returning with water, the student-athlete made another tr𓂃ip to get cold water at Pranav’s request.
The track and🎀 field coach then assessed that Pranav had difficulty getting up even with help from other student-athletes, and activated the school’s boarding staff to assist at 6.45🐭 pm.
An ambulance🍃 was 🅘called at about 6.50 pm and the school's boarding staff called Pranav’s parents around three minutes later.
The ambulance arrived at about 7:02 p.m. and transported the boy to the National University Hospital at about 7:19 p.m. Pranav was accompanied by the badminton coach, who had returned after initially leaving the schoꦿol premises.
Pranav was admitted to the hospital and given medica🃏l care but died on October 11. The cause of death was cardiac arrest with antecedent cause of congenital malformation of corona﷽ry vessels, said the school.
The school added it met with Pranav's parents on Fꦇriday evening and shared with them its findings.
"The school extends our deepest condolences to the family of Pranav, and isꦫ supporting the family in their time of grief," the press release said.
