Doctors treating former Italian
President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi said Tuesday that he was in
improved condition nearly three weeks after he was taken
seriously ill.
Ciampi, 93, was rushed by helicopter to hospital in
Bolzano, capital of the mountainous region of Alto Adige on July
11.
He was placed on life support systems after suffering an
attack of high blood pressure while holidaying at the Villa
Ausserer as a guest of Italy's crack Alpine troops' local
commanding officer.
The Senator underwent an operation to have his appendix
removed and was kept under observation in Bolzano hospital's
intensive care unit.
A medical bulletin by the director of the hospital, Umberto
Tait, said Ciampi had passed a tranquil night and that his
heart, breathing and metabolic parameters are improving.
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