Fed: Seven boss Leckie's condition no longer serious

AAP General News (Australia)
04-22-2008
Fed: Seven boss Leckie's condition no longer serious

SYDNEY, April 22 AAP - Seven Network boss David Leckie has emerged from a coma and
is awake and talking, a Sydney hospital spokesman says.

St Vincent's Private Hospital spokesman David Faktor said Mr Leckie was no longer in
an induced coma, and his condition had been downgraded from serious.

But he was still in the intensive care unit where he was expected to remain for the
next few days, he said.

"He's what they call extubated, he's got a ventilator in and he's still in ICU," Mr
Faktor told AAP.

"But he's listed as being in a stable condition."

Seven chairman Kerry Stokes said Mr Leckie was in good spirits.

"David's sense of humour is in place," Mr Stokes said in a statement.

Mr Leckie was admitted to hospital on April 11 and doctors have been battling to control
a life-threatening infection that started in a finger he almost severed in an accident
at his Sydney home last month.

He was ventilated and placed in an induced coma while doctors worked to help his body
fight the infection.

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