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July 21, 2020 Alex Zanardi has been discharged and transferred today to a specialist neurorehabilitation center. The health management of the Sienese hospital-university company communicates this in a note. The name of the destination structure is not yet known.

After the suspension of sedation, the normality of the cardio-respiratory and metabolic parameters, the stability of the general clinical conditions and the neurological picture allowed the transfer of the sample. 

The health management of the Sienese hospital-university company explains, in a note, that the sedo-analgesia program to which Zanardi was subjected, hospitalized in the uoc anesthesia and resuscitation goddess and transplants for 32 days has ended. His general clinical conditions and neurological picture allowed the transfer of the sample to a specialist recovery and functional rehabilitation center. Alex Zanardi was therefore transferred to another facility today.

Zanardi was hospitalized at the Santa Maria alle Scotte polyclinic from 19 June following the accident with his handbike on the provincial road between Pienza and San Quirico D'Orcia. The Paralympic athlete participated in the charity relay 'Obiettivo Tricolore', when he was seriously injured on the provincial road 146 in the municipality of Pienza after the clash against a truck that came from the opposite direction. The prosecutor of the Republic of Siena has opened an investigation into the accident

"The athlete spent over a month in our hospital - says the general manager of the Aou (University hospital) of Siena Valter Giovannini, has undergone three delicate surgeries and showed a path of stability of his clinical conditions and vital parameters that allowed the reduction and suspension of sedation, and the consequent possibility of being able to be transferred to a facility for the necessary neuro-rehabilitation.

"I send a big hug to the family of Alex, who has shown extraordinary strength: a precious gift that will have to be a fundamental travel companion of the new path that begins today. Zanardi is not only an athlete, but an example of life for all of us so-called "normal". He reminds us that life is something that is really worth living. This is why we have been close to him, as we do for all our patients, "but" with this extra feeling, which has led us to a result that leads us to a smile of hope on the lips. We wish him a path of neurorehabilitation that will lead him to rediscover his characteristics not only as an athlete, but also as a man ", concluded the Aou Senese Dg.

Giovannini stresses that" our professionals remain at the disposal of this extraordinary person and of the his family for the further phases of clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic development, as always happens in these cases. I sincerely thank the multidisciplinary team that took care of Zanardi putting in place a great professionalism, recognized nationally and beyond ".