Ariel Sharon: Former Israeli prime minister moved home
Baku, November 12 (AZERTAC). Doctors say it is better for the former Israeli prime minister to be cared for at home than in hospital
Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, has been moved from a hospital to his home.
The 82-year-old has been in a coma since 2006, when he suffered a massive stroke.
Doctors say the hope is that he will eventually be able to remain at his house with a full medical team to care for him.
The medics said the process of moving him permanently to his home - a farm in southern Israel - was a gradual one.
The former prime minister was taken in an ambulance at dawn on Friday from the Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv to the family`s ranch.
"Today, in 2010, the aspiration of any patient, our aspiration in the hospital, is to ensure that any chronic patient, when possible, is with his community, at home," Dr Shlomo Noy, director of rehabilitation at the hospital, told Israel Radio.
"Clearly what`s behind this move home is the hope that his situation will get better. But the improvements that we talk about in such situations are not great improvements, not dramatic improvements," he added.
Mr Sharon is expected to be returned to hospital for regular check-ups.
"It`s a gradual process, when a hospital discharges a chronic patient to his home," Dr Noy said. "It`s a structured process, whereby you check that the support and
medical environment in which the patient is to be placed permanently is suitable."
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