{"id":404673,"date":"2011-04-28T14:28:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/houllier-set-to-depart-hospital\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:28:27","slug":"houllier-set-to-depart-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/houllier-set-to-depart-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Houllier set to depart hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"72.5801749271\"><span><span>28 April 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>10:13 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier is expected to be discharged from hospital in Birmingham within the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Caretaker boss Gary McAllister said the 63-year-old Frenchman had undergone a scan which was &#8220;favourable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said Houllier&#8217;s condition was much better than had been expected when he was taken ill last week.<\/p>\n<p>Houllier was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on 20 April with chest pains.<\/p>\n<p><span>Recuperation and rest<\/span><\/p>\n<p>McAllister said Houllier had just come through a successful scan and the doctors were pleased.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is going to be discharged in the next 24 hours, &#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>McAllister added the good news from the scan had convinced doctors he was fit enough to go home.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e4d2b6e60746_villa1.gif.gif\" alt=\"Gary McAllister\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Houllier will be back &#8211; McAllister<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Houllier&#8217;s future will be decided with the help of specialists and doctors, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, knowing Gerard and his love of the game, he will want to come back,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>McAllister said Houllier still needed a period of recuperation and had to undertake a lot of rest.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Houllier said he was touched by all the messages he had received and praised the care he had received at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><span>Consulted surgeon<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr Mark Waller, the club doctor, said the manager&#8217;s chest pain had been caused by a dissection of the descending aorta.<\/p>\n<p>McAllister is expected to run the club&#8217;s first team until the end of the Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>Houllier previously had major surgery after suffering heart-related problems in 2001 when he was manager of Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>When he arrived at Villa Park in September to succeed Martin O&#8217;Neill he revealed he had consulted his heart surgeon before accepting the job and was given a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n<p>The club said Houllier had their &#8220;total support&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e4d2b6e60746_villa1.gif-150x150.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/news\/uk-england-13226463\" title=\"Houllier set to depart hospital\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houllier set to depart hospital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 28 April 2011 Last updated at 10:13 ET Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier is expected to be discharged from hospital in Birmingham within the next 24 hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-404673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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