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By: EFE
Sunday, November 17
Former President Bill Clinton expects to be discharged from hospital on Sunday
WASHINGTON – Former United States President Bill Clinton is making “excellent progress” in his recovery from the infection for which he was hospitalized on Tuesday, and expects to be discharged this Sunday, according to his spokesman, Ángel Ureña.
“Former President Clinton has continued to make excellent strides in recent years 24 hours ”, wrote this Saturday afternoon his spokesperson, in a statement published on his official Twitter account.
“He will continue (admitted) tonight at the University of California Irvine Medical Center to continue receiving intravenous antibiotics prior to discharge, we hope tomorrow ”, added Ureña.
Clinton, by 75 years, is “looking forward to coming home very soon, “he has a good mood and has spent hours with his family, catching up on the lives of his friends and” watching college football “on television, the spokesperson explained.
The ex-president was ing rested on Tuesday at the Medical Center of the University of California, Irvine , due to a urinary tract infection that led to a blood infection known as sepsis, reported his doctors to various media.
The former president’s spokesman did not confirm the news of his hospital admission until Thursday night, a fact that set off alarms about his health, since Clinton has suffered from various heart problems in the past.
In 2004 submitted to a quadruple bypass and in 2010 to another surgery cardiovascular disease, but the doctors explained to CNN that the current admission had nothing to do with any heart problem.
According to the University of California Irvine Medical Center team, Clinton is in the intensive care unit for reasons of “ security and privacy. ”
The doctors who are treating Clinton , Lisa Bardack and Alpesh Amin, detailed this Thursday that “After two days of treatment, her white blood cell count is decreasing and she is responding well to antibiotics” and fluids that were given “intravenously.”
Clinton resides in New York, but on Tuesday he traveled to California to participate in a private event with his wife and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton .
One time there, he began to feel nausea and dizzy, so he went to the hospital and was admitted that same day.
Hillary Clinton , for her part, attended the aforementioned private event on behalf of the couple and later moved to the hospital, early Friday morning.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden , telephoned Clinton on Friday and wished him a “quick recovery,” reported the White House.
Clinton is one of four living former presidents of the United States, along with Donald Trump
That last one is, to your 97 years, the longest-lived president in the history of the United States.