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An elite gendarmerie group has entered into contact with hackers who have paralysed the computer systems of a large hospital close to Paris and negotiated a reduction of their ransom demand from 10 million euros to 1 million euros, according to French press reports.

Some health workers already doubt that the reforms will live up to the “massive” investment promised by President Emmanuel Macron.

More than 400 doctors, nurses and ancillary staff wore scrubs and banged trays and pans to demand better funding for the Robert Debré hospital, which French media report is in financial difficulty.

A French hospital has begun the process of ending life support for Vincent Lambert, 42, who suffered severe brain damage after a traffic accident in 2008, with the agreement of his wife and several siblings but to the dismay of his parents who have fought a lengthy but unsuccessful legal battle against the decision.

A spokesman, for Khalifa Haftar, whose Libyan National Army controls much of eastern Libya and who press reports last week said was in a coma after suffering a stroke, claimed on Twitter on Friday that he had visited a Paris hospital 'for normal checkups' and would 'be back in Libya within few days'.

Britain's struggling National Health Service, which pro-Brexit leaders misleadingly promised would recieve a windfall from the country's exit from the EU, is discreetly sending patients on lengthy waiting lists for far quicker treatment in France, like this Brexit supporter who, facing a year to have knee surgery, found relief in just ten days.

The charismatic former president’s declining health continues to dominate French front pages a week after being admitted for a lung infection.

Chirac, 83, who served two terms as French president and who suffered a stroke in 2005, had felt weak for several days, his daughter said.

Drug consumption facilities with clean needles and staffed with counsellors and health workers to open at Lariboisière hospital in Paris.

Algerian and French media reported that Bouteflika, who was last year treated for a stroke in France, returned for care on Tuesday.

Ailing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Saturday left a Grenoble clinic where he was admitted Thursday, officially for 'a checkup'.

The patient, who contracted Ebola while working to combat the epidemic in Sierra Leone, has been placed in isolation in a military hospital.

Latest operation took place amid high secrecy in Nantes eight months after first heart was implanted in a patient who died 75 days later.

The ex-head of state had earlier been admitted to the American Hospital in Paris for what is believed to have been a severe attack of gout.

Trierweiler, hospitalised amid reports of the French president's affair with an actress, is resting at a presidential residence in Versailles.