Jean-Pierre Adams Former France Footballer Dies 39 Years in Coma

Former France footballer, Jean-Pierre Adams, has upheld divided after being in a coma for 39 years. The ex-footballer was certified into Lyon Hospital for knee medicine in 1982. Unfortunately, something went wrong with his supply of pain-killer drugs and he fell into a coma. He died during a age of 73 on Sept. 6, 2021.

The French veteran footballer was innate on Mar 10, 1948, in Dakar, Senegal. Adams’s football career kicked off after his relatives sent him to serve his preparation during Collège Saint-Louis located in Quebec. After receiving simple drill he did some bureau work.

He played football for a duration with l’Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours (EBFN). After that he headed into Military services where he perceived a recommendation to Nîmes.

While in Nîmes he attended a celebration where he met his mother Bernadette. Adams married his mother in 1969. Their matrimony was frowned on — even yet marriages between a European and a Black chairman were decriminalized. They have dual children together.

Adams has been described as physically strong, patriotic, determined, and an altogether force of nature. According to BBC News, he was a defender for Nice and Paris St-Germain. He done over 140 appearances for these teams. The footballer also done 84 appearances for Nimes.

Nimes settled they were promulgation Adams’s family and desired ones their “most frank condolences.” Nice skeleton on profitable him reverence before their Sep 19 home diversion opposite Monaco.

The day that Adams went in for medicine many of a Lyon Hospital’s staff were on strike. According to BBC News, a footballer motionless to still have a operation to correct a shop-worn tendon in his knee.  However, his mother told CNN that she never perceived a call about a strike or that a sanatorium was short-staffed.

Given it was not a critical operation, that a sanatorium was on strike, they were blank doctors and this lady was looking after 8 patients, in dual opposite rooms, someone should have called me to contend they were going to check a operation

The anesthesiologist was overseeing 8 patients, including Adams. However, a footballer was especially supervised by a trainee, who after settled that they were “not adult to a charge we was entrusted with.” The mistakes done between a dual caused Adams to humour mind repairs and cardiac arrest.  They were not punished until a mid-1990s and it was fundamentally a slap on a wrist — a one-month cessation and a 750 euro excellent ($890.14).

After 15 months of being hospitalized Adams was expelled into his wife’s care. She tended to him in their home in Nimes until his failing day.

He is survived by his wife, children, grandchildren, and several other family members and friends. May he rest in peace.

Written by Sheena Robertson

Sources:

Face 2 Face Africa: The unhappy story of Jean-Pierre Adams, a French soccer star who has been in coma for 37 years after botched surgery; by MICHAEL ELI DOKOSI

CNN: Former footballer Jean-Pierre Adams dies following 39-year coma; by Matias Grez and Piers Edwards

BBC News: Jean-Pierre Adams: Former France general dies after 39 years in coma

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