Former President Bill Clinton Released From Hospital Following Sepsis Scare
Bill Clinton has been released from the hospital following a potentially life-threatening sepsis scare.
The former president has reportedly been given a clean bill of health after a urologic infection that developed into sepsis left the 75-year-old hospitalized for 5 nights at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange, California.
The politician was spotted leaving UC Irvine Health accompanied by wife Hillary Clinton and various medical staff on Sunday, October 17.
He was seen walking from the hospital building to an awaiting black vehicle in the parking lot with his wife on one side of him, and a woman who appeared to be a nurse on the other side. All pictured were masked up.
Executive Director of Hospital Medicine at UC Irvine Health, Dr. Alpesh N. Amin, gave a statement on the Arkansas native's health. "His fever and white blood cell count are normalized and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics," he said.
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"On behalf of everyone at UC Irvine Medical Center, we were honored to have treated him and will continue to monitor his progress," the statement concluded.
As OK! previously reported, the 42nd U.S. president's brother, Roger Clinton, admitted he has been too busy with work to visit his older brother in the hospital, but assured the public that he was going to be "just fine."
"He’s going to be okay, he’s going to be just fine," he exclusively told The Sun. "I haven’t been to see him in the hospital because I’ve got too much work to do, but he's going to be okay."
Meanwhile, NBC News medical correspondent Dr. John Torres, claimed this infection was extremely common in older patients, but was not something to take lightly.
"This is something we frequently treat in the emergency room, where somebody comes in with a urinary tract infection," the doctor commented on Friday. "Especially as they get older, their body is not able to contain that, so it moves from the urinary tract, from the bladder and the kidneys, into the bloodstream."
