Former US President Bill Clinton was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, on Monday after developing a fever.
The 78-year-old man was admitted “in the afternoon for testing and observation,” Angel Ureña, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, said in a statement.
“He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.”
Clinton, a Democrat who served two terms as president, from January 1993 to January 2001, addressed the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer and campaigned before the November election for the failed White House bid. of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
In the years since Clinton left the White House, he has faced some health problems.
History of health problems.
In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery after experiencing prolonged chest pains and difficulty breathing. Clinton returned to the hospital for surgery on a partially collapsed lung in 2005, and in 2010 he had a pair of stents implanted in a coronary artery.
Clinton responded by adopting a primarily vegan diet that allowed her to lose weight and improve her health.
In 2021, the former president was hospitalized for six days in California while receiving treatment for an infection that was not related to COVID-19, when the pandemic was still near its peak.
An aide to the former president said then that Clinton had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, but that he was improving and never went into septic shock, a life-threatening condition. The aide said Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital at the time, but was not receiving ICU care.
