A former United States President Bill Clinton has been
released from a California hospital after being treated for an infection that
spread to his bloodstream.
Clinton walked out arm-in-arm with his wife and former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before greeting hospital staff and giving a
thumbs-up when asked how he was feeling, CNN reports.
University of California Irvine Health Department of
Medicine Executive Director Dr Alpesh N. Amin, who had been overseeing
Clinton’s medical team, released a statement following Clinton’s release.
“President Clinton was discharged from UC Irvine Medical
Center today. His fever and white blood cell count are normalized, and he will
return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics. On behalf of
everyone at UC Irvine Medical Center, we were honoured to have treated him and
will continue to monitor his progress,” Amin wrote.
Clinton had been admitted last week to the UC Irvine Medical
Center’s intensive care unit for a urinary tract infection that spread to his
bloodstream.
The former President, who was in good spirits throughout his
treatment, had been treated in the ICU for privacy and safety, not because he
needed intensive care, according to his doctors.
Clinton, 75, had felt fatigued on Tuesday and was admitted
to the hospital after testing, according to his office. The former President
was in California for a private event for his foundation, and Hillary Clinton
went to the event on Thursday evening to “represent both of them” and then went
to the hospital to be with him, a Clinton spokesman told CNN.
As of Saturday, Clinton “continued to make excellent
progress,” according to his spokesperson Angel Ureña, and remained in the
hospital overnight to receive further IV antibiotics.
According to a source familiar with the situation, the kind
of antibiotic needed to treat Clinton’s type of infection had to be
administered via IV and not orally, which is why he remained in the hospital.
The former President’s doctors said urologic infections are
very common in older people, and that they are easily treated, although they
can quickly spread to the bloodstream.
The 42nd President has faced other health challenges in the
past. He underwent quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2004 and had two stents
inserted to open one artery in 2010.
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