Former Cameroon defender Rigobert Song came out of a two-day coma and is set to be flown to France for treatment.
Song was admitted at Yaounde Cetral Hospital on Sunday after falling unconscious. He is thought to have suffered a cerebral aneurysm.
“He has come out of his coma and the oxygen has been disconnected,” Dr Louis Joss Bitang A Mafok, director of the hospital’s emergency centre told the BBC.
“His high blood pressure has returned to normal and the cerebral haemorrhage has been controlled.”
Dr Mafok also explained that a plane will be arriving from France to transfer Song on Tuesday.
“A medical aircraft will be in Cameroon in (Tuesday) he morning, we will have a working session with the French team and then he will be flown to France,” he explained.
Reports in Cameroon said Song would be taken to the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. “It’s terrible what has happened. We can only pray to God that he comes through it,” the former Cameroon striker Roger Milla told L’Equipe.
