Sharon's condition improves after pneumonia
(AP)
Updated: 2006-08-29 14:13
JERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon's condition has improved and he has been taken out
of intensive care after suffering pneumonia, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday.
Former Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon (R) looks at a map in southern Israel, July 5, 2005.
The same day an uneasy truce took effect in the Lebanon war, doctors
treating Sharon reported a sharp deterioration in his condition as he lay
comatose in a Tel Aviv hospital. [Reuters] |
The former prime minister, 78, has been in a coma since he suffered the
second of two strokes on January 4. He has since undergone several extensive
brain operations to stop cerebral hemorrhaging, in addition to other relatively
minor procedures.
Sharon was transferred back to the respiratory rehabilitation department at
Tel Aviv's Chaim Sheba Medical Center Tuesday since there has been a "noticeable
improvement in his kidney function and the pneumonia in his lungs," spokesman
David Weinberg said.
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