Clinton leaves hospital after treatment for infection
Former US President, Bill Clinton was released from a California hospital on Sunday after spending five nights in treatment for an infection.
Clinton, arm in arm with his wife and former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, gave a thumbs up after he walked slowly out of the hospital and shook hands with staff in front of television cameras.
“His fever and white blood cell counts are normalized and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics”, added Amin, who oversaw the medical team treating the former president.
The US leader from 1993 to 2001, was admitted Tuesday evening to the hospital, south of Los Angeles with a non-Covid related blood infection.
An aide reported, Clinton developed a Urinary Tract Infection that turned into sepsis. Sepsis is an extreme bodily reaction to infection that affects 1.7 million people in America annually, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
It kills 270,000 of those infected every year. The infection was the latest health scare for America’s 42nd President. In 2004, at age 58, he underwent a quadruple bypass operation after doctors found signs of extensive heart disease.
Six years later, he had stents implanted in his coronary artery.
This prompted him to adopt a vegetarian diet and to speak out publicly of how his change in food consumption helped him get healthier.
“Maybe if i had…. not eaten so many hamburgers and steaks which i love, maybe if i had, you know, had slightly less stress in my life….. maybe it would have been different”, Clinton said in 2004, after his heart surgery.
In the two decades since leaving the White House after two presidential terms, he has flown himself into numerous humanitarian and diplomatic causes.
He traveled the world, not just to receive generous speaking fees and to attend conferences but to visit disaster areas or raise funds to fight against AIDS.
Clinton, who once called himself, “the comeback kid”, during the 1992 Democratic Party Primary battle, remains involved in his Clinton Foundation and supported his wife’s unsuccessful campaign against Donald Trump 5 years ago.
