Canberra Raiders forward Corey Harawira-Naera is awake, sitting and talking after being stretchered from the field on Saturday night following a seizure. NRL 7NEWS
Watch the latest sport on Channel 7 or stream for free onThe Fox Sports broadcast briefly showed Harawira-Naera suffer the medical episode while being tended to by doctors. Play was halted for several minutes before he was lifted onto a medicab.
Raiders coach Ricky Stuart made his way from the upper-level coaches box to the sidelines to monitor the situation. “It was awful. I just spoke to the doctors then, he said he had a seizure and they’re unsure as regards to why,” Stuart told Fox Sports. “There doesn’t seem to have been any contact to the head. So they’re at a bit of loss as to why it’s occurred. He’s off to hospital now. Our prayers and thoughts are with him.
“His family can understand he’s in the best care. The medical people have done a wonderful job now and in hospital he’s in good hands.”
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