Michael Schumacher Out Of coma

 

Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has left the hospital in Grenoble where he had been receiving treatment after a skiing accident last year.


The seven-times Formula One world champion had sustained severe head injuries in the incident in the French Alps in December, and was subsequently put into an artificially-induced coma a few days later.

But his manager Sabine Kehm said in a statement today: 'Michael has left the CHU Grenoble to continue his long phase of rehabilitation. He is not in a coma anymore.'
He was this morning admitted to the University Hospital of Lausanne, in western Switzerland, after leaving the Grenoble hospital.

'He is here, he arrived this morning,' Darcy Christen, spokesman for the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), told Reuters.

Christen declined to say what unit Schumacher, who lives with his family in a town between Lausanne and Geneva, was being treated in, citing medical secrecy and family privacy.

Schumacher's family offered their gratitude to all those who have played a part in the process over the past five and a half months.

The statement added: 'His family would like to explicitly thank all his treating doctors, nurses and therapists in Grenoble, as well as the first aiders at the place of the accident, who did an excellent job in those first months.

According to The Telegraph, reports in Germany suggest Schumacher can communicate with those around him, particularly his family, and opens his eyes during 'waking phases'.

The racing driver is now also apparently able to see and hear, The Mirror has reported.

With an accumulated wealth estimated to be well over half-a-billion pounds, Schumacher's family is well placed to provide the care that will be needed in the coming years. 

MailOnline reported in April that his family was said to be planning to build a custom multi-million pound mini-clinic to care for him, not in the home he shares with Corinna, as previously reported, but in the house of his father Rolf.

It had been earlier suggested that his wife Corinna was planning on spending £10million on building a fully equipped medical suite on their vast family estate in Switzerland, although later reports said it will be built at his father's home.