Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be treated at a military hospital outside Paris, the French Defense Ministry said Friday. Arafat will be taken to the Hopital d'Instruction des Armees de Percy, a military hospital with a major trauma center, a ministry spokesman said. Christian Estripeau, head of communications for military health services, said Percy, which opened in February 1996, is one of nine military hospitals in France. It has 430 beds and a staff of 1,200, including 110 physicians. Although a military facility, it is open to civilians. "It was the hospital that seemed best suited to the needs of Mr. Arafat," said Estripeau.
