Former US President Bill Clinton is in intensive care, and his doctor speaks to CNN

 Former US President Bill Clinton is in intensive care, and his doctor speaks to CNN

New York, USA (CNN)--Former US President Bill Clinton was admitted to the intensive care unit at the University of California, Irvine Health Center, due to a urinary tract infection that spread to the bloodstream, one of his doctors told CNN.

"He has been admitted to the intensive care unit for close monitoring and given antibiotics and intravenous fluids. He remains in the hospital for ongoing monitoring," said a joint statement from Dr. Albish Amin, chief of medicine at the Irvine Center and Dr. Lisa Bardack, Clinton's personal physician Thursday evening, adding that Clinton He was in the ICU for privacy and security, not because he needed intensive care.

The former president's doctors say that urinary tract infections are very common in the elderly and are easily treatable, although they can spread quickly into the bloodstream, noting that Clinton will be given intravenous antibiotics until Friday and then he will likely switch to antibiotics by Oral route, and that "all his biometrics are stable".

It is reported that the 75-year-old Clinton had heart surgery in 2004 and had two stents inserted to open one artery in 2010. But his doctors stressed that his admission to the hospital had nothing to do with the heart or the new Corona virus "Covid-19".