Hospital reports Ariel Sharon out of intensive care

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Hospital reports Ariel Sharon out of intensive care

Updated 11/6/2006 2:47 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was taken out of intensive care Monday morning four days after he was admitted for a dangerous infection, the Haim Sheba Medical Center announced.

Doctors said that Sharon, comatose since suffering a stroke in January, had been moved to intensive care when the infection threatened his heart function.

The hospital said doctors treated the infection and transferred Sharon back to the respiratory ward, where he has been hospitalized since being moved to Sheba in May. He has undergone several extensive brain operations to stop cerebral hemorrhaging, in addition to several minor procedures.

Sharon lapsed into a coma just months after he ended Israel's 38-year occupation of the Gaza Strip and bolted his hard-line Likud Party to form the centrist Kadima faction.

There is a time to let go. I hope no one does this to me.