{"id":141809,"date":"2021-10-15T03:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=141809"},"modified":"2021-10-15T03:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T03:30:39","slug":"ex-president-bill-clinton-recovering-from-infection-in-hospital-doctors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/ex-president-bill-clinton-recovering-from-infection-in-hospital-doctors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-President Bill Clinton recovering from infection in hospital, doctors say"},"content":{"rendered":"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -U.S. former President Bill Clinton was in a California hospital on Thursday with an infection and responding well to two days of treatment, his doctors said.<\/p> Clinton, 75, was admitted on Tuesday evening to the UCI Medical Center in Irvine \u201cfor a non-COVID-19 infection,\u201d Clinton spokesperson Angel Urena. \u201cHe is on the mend, in good spirits, and incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses and staff providing him with excellent care.\u201d<\/p>\n The former president went to the hospital after feeling fatigued and was diagnosed with sepsis, an infection of the bloodstream, which doctors believe started as a urinary tract infection, CNN reported, citing his doctors.<\/p>\n Clinton\u2019s physicians, Alpesh Amin and Lisa Bardack, said in a statement that he was \u201cadmitted to the hospital for close monitoring and administered IV antibiotics and fluids.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe remains at the hospital for continuous monitoring,\u201d they said. \u201cAfter two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well.\u201d<\/p>\n They added: \u201cWe hope to have him go home soon.\u201d<\/p>\n Clinton, a Democrat who was president from 1993-2001, has had past health issues, including a 2004 quadruple bypass surgery and a 2010 procedure to open a blocked artery in his heart with two stents. CNN reported that Clinton\u2019s current hospital stay is not related to his heart issues.<\/p>\n CNN also reported that the former president was in the intensive care unit, primarily to give him privacy, and he was not on a breathing machine, according to doctors treating the former president at University of California Irvine Medical Center, California.<\/p>\n The former Arkansas governor came to the White House by defeating an incumbent president, Republican George H.W. Bush, and served during a period of acute partisanship in Washington, a harbinger of the current bitter political state.<\/p>\n Clinton won re-election in 1996 against longtime Republican Senator Bob Dole.<\/p>\n Clinton endured bruising political battles with Republicans. He was impeached in 1998 by the Republican-led House of Representatives over his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky but remained in office when the Senate acquitted him in 1999.<\/p>\n He is known for a remarkable talent for connecting with people and an exceptional understanding of policy issues, making him an able politician and leader.<\/p>\n