{"id":15403,"date":"2019-11-21T03:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2019-11-21T03:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T03:18:55","slug":"butambuze-undergoes-successful-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/butambuze-undergoes-successful-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Butambuze undergoes successful surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/butambuze-oktay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"332\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia defender Shafiq Batambuze has finally undergone a surgery \non his left knee after seven months of seeking financial assistance to \nhelp him fund the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to information on Gor\u2019s website, the Ugandan international will be discharged from hospital this Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONTRACT WITH GOR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBatambuze has gone through surgery and will be discharged on Friday \n22nd November 2019. We wish him a quick recovery,\u201d read the club \nstatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Batumbuze confided to <em>Nation Sport<\/em> that he is in Uganda and \nhas received treatment at Kousu Hospital in Entebbe Kampala at a cost of\n Sh350,000 he raised from family members and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also revealed that the doctors have told him that he is expected \nto be back on the pitch after five months and assured Gor Mahia fans \nthat he will see to it that he finishes his contract which ends in \nNovember next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will have to finish my contract with Gor Mahia that is ending in \nNovember next year. I will be back strong, hopefully to help Gor \ncontinue its dominance in KPL and continental football,\u201d said Batambuze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia Chairman Ambrose Rachier has meanwhile clarified that the \nclub did not offer any monetary assistance to the defender since they \nhad no money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>QUICK RECOVERY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a very honest person and I can\u2019t lie that we contributed \nfinancially to help him undergo treatment. In fact I\u2019m hearing it from \nyou that he has been treated,\u201d Rachier told&nbsp;<em>Nation Sport<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is our player, we are happy that he finally got assisted and we \nwish him a quick recovery. It was hard for us to assist because of the \nabrupt departure of our shirt sponsor SportPesa. Since then, we\u2019ve found\n it hard to pay our players their salaries in time,\u201d Rachier added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ugandan left back got injured in April when the reigning \nchampions won 2-1 against Ulinzi Stars in Kenya Premier League match at \nAfraha Stadium. Batambuze didn\u2019t finish the game as he was substituted \nbefore the end of the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the encounter, Batambuze was making a comeback from another injury he sustained during KPL match against Bandari FC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/butambuze-undergoes-successful-surgery\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the Nation Gor Mahia defender Shafiq Batambuze has finally undergone a surgery on his left knee after seven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[640],"class_list":["post-15403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-shafiq-butambuze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15404,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions\/15404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}