Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Schumacher condition remains 'stable but critical'

The hospital treating Michael Schumacher for head
injuries says his condition remains stable but
critical.
Doctors in Grenoble say he is being continually
monitored but they will not be releasing more health
details.
The former racing champion has been in a
medically induced coma for the past eight days
following a skiing accident in the French Alps.
Meanwhile prosecutors investigating the accident
plan to give details of their probe on Wednesday.
Schumacher's father Rolf and brother Ralf are
among family members visiting the stricken driver
The state prosecutor in Albertville, Patrick Quincy,
told the AP news agency that French investigators
were trying to obtain smartphone footage of the
accident which the German magazine Der Spiegel
reported had been shot by a bystander.
The magazine says that a flight attendant from
Essen who was filming his girlfriend on the slopes
happened to catch what he believes was
Schumacher's fall in the background.
The 35-year-old planned to hand the footage over
to prosecutors, Der Spiegel reported.
Media activity at the hospital in Grenoble has been
intense.
Monday's hospital statement said that the medical
team will not be giving details of Schumacher's
treatment for reasons of privacy, and no further
press conferences were planned "for the time
being".
The statement also asked journalists to refrain from
reporting claims about the driver's health not
originating from the medical team or his
management.
On Monday his manager Ms Kehm told German
media that his stable condition could be regarded as
a "slight improvement" since the weekend.

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