Former President Bill Clinton continues to recover in a California hospital
Bill Clinton is admitted to a California hospital with an infection.
Photo: File / Thais Llorca / EFE
WASHINGTON – Former President of the United States Bill clinton is responding favorably to treatment against the urinary infection for which he had to be hospitalized last Tuesday in the south of California.
“All the health indicators are going in the right direction and his white blood cell count has dropped significantly,” Clinton’s spokesman said Friday, Angel Ureña, it’s a statement.
Ureña explained that the ex-president will stay in the hospital for at least one more night, to continue taking antibiotics.
According to the team at the University of California Irvine Medical Center, Clinton is in the intensive care unit for “security and privacy” reasons.
An assistant, who spoke anonymously, assured the media gathered at the hospital since the early morning that Clinton, 75-year-old has spent the day reading, walking and “joking” with the center’s employees.
Although the former president was admitted on Tuesday, his spokesman did not confirm the news until Thursday night, a point that set off alarms about his health, since Clinton has suffered several heart problems in the past.
In 2004 he underwent a quadruple bypass and in 2010 another cardiovascular surgery, but doctors explained to CNN that the current admission is due to a urinary tract infection that led to a blood infection known as sepsis and that, if it is not treated in time, it can be lethal.
“President Clinton was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center and diagnosed with an infection. He was admitted to the hospital for close follow-up and antibiotics and fluids were administered intravenously, “Drs. Lisa Bardack and Alpesh Amin said in a statement.
The deputy spokeswoman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, reported in a brief message of a call held on Friday afternoon between Clinton and the president Joe biden.
Earlier, during a visit to Connecticut, Biden He commented that, according to the information he had, the former president was recovering.
“He seems fine, God willing (he will recover),” he said. Biden, 78-year-old as he tapped the wood of the presidential podium with his knuckles.
Clinton resides in New York, but on Tuesday he traveled to California to participate in a private event with his wife and former presidential candidate. Hillary clinton.
Once there, he began to feel nauseous and dizzy, so he visited the hospital and was admitted that same day.
Hillary clintonFor his part, he attended the appointment on behalf of the couple and later went to the hospital this morning, where several cameras captured his arrival surrounded by the strong security device that the US Secret Service has arranged in the vicinity of the center.
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