Guwahati, Nov. 5: No Shoaib Akhtars and Mohammed Asifs, please. Assam wants the National Games to be a clean affair and is spending Rs 1-crore plus to ensure that its health personnel do not lack expertise on the subject.

Dispur is bringing in anti-doping expert Ashok Ahuja to train the 100-odd doctors who will be on duty during the event. The medical committee constituted for the Games will hold a three-day crash course for the doctors at the Assam Administrative Staff College in Guwahati from Tuesday.

Sources in the chief minister’s office said six sports medicine specialists from outside the state, including Ahuja, had been invited to train the doctors.

“Given the nature and magnitude of the event, the shortlisted doctors will be given lessons in field and site management and dope control. They will also be briefed on how to deal with psychological and medico-legal aspects. The training will cover everything from permissible drinks and drugs to critical care,” said committee member Dipankar Bhattacharyya, himself a specialist.

He said the Himanta Biswa Sarma-headed panel was ready with a blueprint for a 500-member medical team.

The doctors’ camp will be followed by a course for 120 nurses and 130 paramedical staff from November 17 to 19.

“Stretcher-bearers, masseurs, attendants, and marshals, who will be collecting the urine samples, will be trained in the next phase. Around 500 samples will be collected and sent for dope tests,” Bhattacharyya said.

The National Games Secretariat is converting four flats at the Games Village in Sarusajai into the eight-bedded Central Medical Polyclinic equipped with facilities for physiotherapy, steam and sauna bath, massage and a pharmacy.