Health
In June 2007, Rocard was admitted at Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata, India where doctors found he had a blood clot in the brain and was operated. He was discharged from the hospital on 10 July 2007.
On 30 March 2011, Rocard was on a visit to Stockholm, Sweden to attend an meeting regarding the Arctic Council and in an break at noon, he became ill and was taken to the Karolinska University Hospital. The doctors decided later that day that Rocard will spend the night at the hospital's intensive-care medicine unit for observation.
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