New Delhi: Doping continues to be a major problem in the world of sports and has also spread its tentacles far and wide in the Indian sports world.
There has been an increase in the number of positive dope cases in Indian sports over the past few years and is proving to be quite a handful for doctors who are not aware of the latest performance enhancing drugs.
Sports officials say this is due to a lack of awareness and that the National Congress on Sports Medicine being held in New Delhi will address all the issues concerning the doping problem.
This is the first time that doping control - officers course is being organised in the country.
The sports official say that the purpose of the Congress is to make the sports medicine doctors up to date with the vast and confusing world of performance enhancing drugs.
The Sports Medicine Federation of India has invited a anti-doping expert, Dr M Jegathesan from Malaysia for this course.
He says that the Indian doctors need to get a grip on the subject with the 2010 Commonwealth games scheduled in Delhi.
The recent spate of high profile drugs controversies in India has made every one sit up and take notice.
Keeping that in mind the federation plans to hold such seminars annually.
But with new drugs surfacing with alarming regularity only seminars may not be the solution to tackling the doping menace.
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