Ryon Jones, Staff Reporter

Jamaican midfielder, Romario 'Rum Rum' Campbell, has been hospitalised as he receives treatment for a blood clot close to his lungs.

The 23-year-old player sustained a knock during the October 6th Red Stripe Premier League encounter against August Town. He subsequently trained and travelled with Jamaica's senior men's team for the October 11 World Cup Qualifier against USA and was again on the bench for the final match of the campaign at the National Stadium on Tuesday.

In between this Campbell also featured for Waterhouse against his former club Harbour View in the Flow Champions Cup semi-final match on Sunday and scored a beauty, which was the game's lone goal.

Ahead of his team's training yesterday, however, he started complaining of again feeling pain and was taken to University Hospital of the West Indies before being transferred to the University Hospital of the West Indies. There an x-ray and a computed tomography or CT scan was done, which revealed that he had sustained a bruise close to his lungs.

"He got a bounce in the August game and he felt a pain afterwards, but yesterday (Thursday) while he was training he complained of feeling pain again, so we took him to the doctor," Waterhouse's coach, Junior Francis said.

"What the doctor is saying is there was a little bruise there from that time (August Town game), but because it is his lungs they are treating it with care."

The injury means that Campbell will miss his team's fifth round league meeting with Tivoli Gardens tomorrow, the same team they will contest the Flow Cup final against on the 28th.

"We will play without him and whatever consequence we will live with it," Francis said.

The injury could not come at a worse time for the former Norman Manley High school student, as he was enjoying a purple patch with his recall to the national set-up after being put on a special training programme by coach Winfried Schäfer and is one of the key players for his club being the leading scorer in the Flow Cup.

Campbell, who got started in football at age six with Rousseau Primary, made his international debut on April 28, 2010 against South Africa in Frankfurt, Germany.