Hospitalization as a precaution. Bill Clinton was released from Georgetown University Hospital in Washington on Tuesday after being admitted there the day before for the flu, announced an advisor to the 78-year-old former US president. The former Democratic president and his family “are deeply grateful for the care received”and are “touched by the kind messages and wishes for a good recovery he received”declared his deputy chief of staff Angel Urena on the social network X.
President Clinton was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever. He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.
— Angel Ureña (@angelurena) December 23, 2024
President of the United States from 1993 to 2001, Bill Clinton has already had to be hospitalized in the past. In 2004, he underwent quadruple coronary bypass surgery to free four blocked arteries. Then, in 2010, an angioplasty, a procedure aimed at widening a narrowed or blocked artery.
Most recently, in 2021, the former president developed a urinary tract infection that developed into sepsis, a serious whole-body reaction to infection.
Two presidential terms
Bill Clinton, a Democrat who won the White House in the early 1990s, served two presidential terms driven by America’s prosperity. But also tainted by scandals, including the famous Monica Lewinsky affair, a former White House intern with whom Clinton had repeated sexual relations.
He enjoyed a second public life after the presidency, in the form of a decade devoted to humanitarian works with his foundation, or high-flying diplomatic missions, while his wife Hillary Clinton was the unsuccessful candidate for the White House in 2016.
Updated: at 6:44 p.m. with Bill Clinton leaving the hospital.
Source: www.liberation.fr
