00 04/10/2005 13:09
Best is 'improving' in hospital
Tuesday, 04 October 2005 9:06


Former Manchester United star George Best's condition is improving today in an intensive care unit after being struck down with a kidney infection.

The Northern Ireland born legend is in a serious, but improving condition at the private Cromwell Hospital in west London.

His condition was not directly related to his well-documented struggle with alcohol, according to Professor Roger Williams.

But he would have been more susceptible to the illness because he has been on a course of medication to prevent his body rejecting a new liver.

Best had a life-saving transplant operation in 2002 after his old liver was left ravaged by decades of heavy drinking.

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