The retired seven-time Formula One champion, was in a critical condition on Monday after undergoing brain surgery following a skiing accident in the French Alps, doctors said
The 44-year-old German was "suffering a serious brain trauma with coma on his arrival, which required an immediate neurosurgical operation", the hospital in the southeastern French city of Grenoble said in a brief statement.
A helicopter is seen in front of the Grenoble hospital, French Alps,
where former seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher is
being treated.
"He remains in a critical condition."Schumacher had been skiing off-piste with his 14-year-old son in the upmarket Meribel resort, where he reportedly has a property, when he fell and hit his head on a rock.
He was airlifted to a local hospital, then, an hour later, to the better-equipped Grenoble facility. A surgeon and brain specialist from Paris was rushed in to oversee his treatment.
The director of the Meribel resort, Christophe Gernigon-Lecomte, had said just after the accident that Schumacher had been wearing a helmet and was "conscious but a little agitated", suggesting he had not received life-threatening injuries.
But when Schumacher fell into coma, doctors realised the damage was worse than initially feared.
Two mountain police officers who gave first aid to Schumacher said he was suffering "severe cranial
trauma" when they got to him and a helicopter was brought in to evacuate him within 10 minutes.
Deputy director Jean Marc Grenier talks to media outside the CHU Nord hospital in Grenoble, French
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