Zanardi transferred to rehabilitation center

Too early to tell whether Zanardi has permanent brain damage, but his racing days are clearly over

(GMM) Over a month since his horror hand-cycling crash, Alex Zanardi has left the hospital in Siena, Italy.

Doctors at the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital announced late last week that they would try to bring him out of his coma.

In a statement, the hospital confirmed that the "sedo-analgesia program" has indeed now "ended".

As a result, the "neurological picture allowed for the transfer of the patient to a specialized recovery and functional rehabilitation center", the hospital added.

Hospital general manager Valtere Giovannini said "this extraordinary person" is now going into a facility "for the necessary neuro-rehabilitation".