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Monday 16 June 2014

Michael Schumacher out of coma and has left hospital, manager says



Seven-time F1 champion had been in induced coma in Grenoble hospital since skiing accident in Decembe


Michael Schumacher


Former Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has left the Grenoble hospital where he has been treated since a skiing accident in the Alps five months ago, his spokeswoman said on Monday.




"Michael has left the CHU Grenoble [hospital] to continue his long phase of rehabilitation. He is not in a coma anymore," his spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm, said in a statement. She did not indicate where he had been transferred to.

Michael Schumacher hospital in Grenoble
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The announcement came after a German magazine, Bunte, reported last Friday that the 45-year old champion had been moved from the Grenoble hospital's intensive care department, where he had been in a medically induced coma, into a rehabilitation unit. The magazine reported that Schumacher was "out of danger", although his chances of a full recovery had diminished. It said that preparations were under way to move him to a specialised rehabilitation clinic.


Grenoble University hospital. Photograph: Abaca/Barcroft
Schumacher sustained life-threatening head injuries after falling on to a rock while skiing with friends in the resort of Meribel, in the French Alps, on 29 December. He underwent two operations in Grenoble to remove blood clots on the brain.

Monday's communique was the first issued by Kehm since 4 April, when she said that the Formula 1 legend was making "small signs of progress" and was showing "some moments of communication".

Michael Schumacher in Mugello

But since then, former Formula 1 doctor, Gary Hartstein, wrote on his blog earlier this month that he feared the worst, given the lack of information from Schumacher's family. He said he was "quite afraid, and virtually certain, we will never have any good news about Michael".



Kehm thanked the doctors and nurses at Grenoble hospital and the rescue services who rushed him from the scene of the accident. She said they had done "an excellent job in those first months".

The statement also expressed gratitude for messages of support which she said had surely helped the injured former champion.

But she also asked for privacy while Schumacher's "further rehabilitation" took place "away from the public eye".

The seven-time Formula 1 champion has a home on the shores of Lake Geneva. It was reported in March that his wife Corinna had spent £10million on building a medical suite in the mansion there.

Source: The Guardian UK 



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