Clinton experienced several health problems after leaving the White House.
The former US president Bill Clinton was hospitalized on Monday with a fever in a hospital in Washington. This was announced by a representative of his press office, reports TASR according to the AP agency.
“President Clinton was admitted to (hospital) Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for examination and observation after developing a fever,” Angel Ureňa, the 78-year-old Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, said on the X social network.
He added that the ex-president is in good spirits and “deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving (at the hospital)”.
Clinton served two terms as President of the United States, from January 1993 to January 2001. He was elected as the Democratic Party’s nominee, having previously served as governor of Arkansas.
His wife, Hillary Clinton, ran for the Democratic Party in the 2016 presidential election. However, she was defeated by Republican Donald Trump. Clinton himself spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer, endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who was also ultimately defeated by Trump.
Health problems
Clinton experienced several health problems after leaving the White House. In 2004, after long-lasting chest pains and shortness of breath, he underwent a quadruple bypass. In 2005 he underwent lung surgery and in 2010 he was implanted with the so-called coronary stents. After these procedures, he started to follow a mostly vegan diet, thanks to which he lost weight and his health improved.
The last time he was hospitalized for six days in 2021 was in a California hospital for an infection he got at the height of the pandemic, but it was not related to the disease of COVID-19. It was allegedly a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, but he recovered relatively quickly.
