Rigobert Song has departed Cameroon for France, barely a day after coming out of a two-day coma at Yaounde Emergency Centre on Tuesday, October 4, 2016.
The former Cameroon and Liverpool defender will continue treatment at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
Here’s what you should know about the hospital:
1. Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière) is a renowned teaching hospital in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, for purposes of local government administration.
2. It is one of the largest hospitals in Europe with over 1,600 beds.
3. Before the 1789–99 French Revolution, the hospital had become the world’s largest hospital, with a capacity of 10,000 patients plus 300 prisoners.
4. The celebrated hospital built in 1675, is located at 47-83 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.
5. Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital is built on the site of a former gunpowder factory and also formerly used as a prison.
6. Libéral Bruant, a French architect who died in November 1697, aged 62, designed it.
7. Sport stars that have been treated at the Salpêtrière include former Brazilian footballer Ronaldo De Lima, and former Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher.
8. Celebs that have also died at the Pitié-Salpêtrière include Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 after being involved in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris. French singer Josephine Baker (cerebral haemorrhage) in 1975, and French bicycle racer Laurent Fignon (metastatic spread of lung cancer) in 2010.
9. According to Hotels.com, you can lodge at any hotel near Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital from $81 per night. You also get a night free as ‘welcome rewards’, if you book 10 nights in any of the hotels.
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