Bill Clinton hospitalised in California with suspected blood infection

Аormer US President Bill Clinton, 75, will spend a few days in one of the Californian hospitals due to a suspected blood infection, CNN reported on Thursday.

Mr Clinton was in the intensive care unit, his spokesman Angel Urena said on Twitter. In fact, the patient is in good mood, and the ICY just gives him privacy. Bill Clinton was not on a breathing machine, doctors treating the former leader at the University of California Irvine Medical Center, California.

As a statement issued by Clinton’s physicians, Dr Alpesh Amin and Dr Lisa Bardack, says he was “admitted to the hospital for close monitoring and administered IV antibiotics and fluids.”

The 75-year-old man’s condition is not related to his previous heart problems or coronavirus. Commenting on the news on Clinton, Urena added that he ” is on the mend, in good spirits, and incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses and staff providing him with excellent care”.

“He remains at the hospital for continuous monitoring,” the doctors’ statement added. “After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well.”

The doctors added that they hope “to have him go home soon.”