SHARON MOVED TO TEL AVIV

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has been transferred from Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital to a rehabilitation centre in Tel Aviv, five months after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage.

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Professor Zeev Rothstein, director of the Sheba centre, said doctors would try to help him come off the artificial respiration. But he acknowledged that the prospects of 78-year-old former prime minister regaining consciousness were “extremely thin”.

“We have arranged a course of treatment over the months ahead which will give him the best possible chance,” Professor Rothstein told reporters.

“For a man of his age who is in a coma and under artificial respiration, each stage of his treatment can put his life in danger — that’s why it is a process which takes time.”

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