His stay is longer than expected.
Former US President Bill Clinton, 75, is spending an extra night in the California hospital where he is being treated for an infection unrelated to Covid-19, his spokesperson said on Saturday.
Bill Clinton, President of the United States from 1993 to 2001, was admitted Tuesday evening with a blood infection at the UCI Irvine Medical Center at the University of California, south of Los Angeles.
He "will stay in the hospital overnight in order to continue to receive intravenous antibiotics before a scheduled discharge" this Sunday, his spokesperson, Angel Urena said on Twitter, stressing that "all health indicators are evolving in common sense ".
The former president is "in a good mood and spent time with his family, reuniting with friends and watching college football," he added.
Update, from me, on President Clinton pic.twitter.com/Mjmx2wQNha
- Angel Ureña (@angelurena) October 16, 2021
According to the New York Times, citing a collaborator, Bill Clinton developed a urinary tract infection that turned into sepsis.
Sepsis, the body's extreme reaction to infection, affects 1.7 million people each year in America, and kills 270,000, according to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), the leading health agency in the United States. United.
Bill Clinton has had to be hospitalized in the past, such as in 2004 when he underwent a quadruple bypass surgery to free four blocked arteries, and in 2010 when he underwent angioplasty.