If the press release does not reveal the state of health of Michael Schummacher, nor the place of his rehabilitation, a spokesperson for the University Hospital of Vaud (CHUV) located in Lausanne, Darcy Christen confirmed to AFP, the transfer in his establishment of the former champion.
“Mr. Schumacher was taken care of by the CHUV this morning. His family is with him, in a space specially designed to preserve their privacy and to ensure the best possible care,” he said. “As with any patient, we want to ensure that medical secrecy and the private sphere of his family are respected,” he added.
Following his skiing accident, the pilot suffered from severe brain damage and had been plunged into an artificial coma. Since January 30, the doctors had put him in the “waking up phase”, a long and complicated process which consists of gradually reducing the sedatives administered.
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No medical information was transmitted by the press release and neither the Grenoble University Hospital nor the family will hold a press conference.
On April 13 Sabine Kehm judged during a television interview “impossible to make the slightest prognosis, because even doctors do not make one. In this kind of brain injury, each case is a separate case”.
She recalls that Michael Schumacher’s entourage asks “everyone to kindly, in the future, respect the fact that this long phase of rehabilitation will only take place in a private setting”, and that “his family wishes to expressly thank the doctors, medical teams and the administration of the Grenoble hospital as well as the first responders who intervened at the site of the accident. All of them did a wonderful job during these first months. As well as “all the people who sent their best wishes for recovery to Michael. Those certainly helped him.”
