French Military Hospital to Admit Hudson ‘If His Condition Warrants’
The Defense Ministry has agreed to admit film star Rock Hudson to a French military hospital “if his condition warrants it,” after a request made through the U.S. Embassy, embassy spokesman Philip Brown said Sunday.
Brown said the embassy made inquires at Hudson’s request last Friday to see whether the actor, suffering from AIDS and a liver ailment, could be moved to a military hospital for treatment. He said he did not know why Hudson sought to be moved from the well-equipped American Hospital here.
Other sources, speaking on the condition that they not be identified, said that Hudson had been put in contact with a French military doctor when he became ill at the Deauville Film Festival in France last September. The doctor, who was not identified, is now treating Hudson at the American Hospital, the sources said.
American Hospital spokesman Bruce Redor said Sunday that Hudson’s condition remained stable.
While France is a joint leader with the United States in research and treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, Paris’ major military hospital, the Val de Grace, is not known to be involved in AIDS treatment.
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