Former US president George H.W.
Bush has been hospitalized yet again in Houston, local media reported Wednesday.
The 92-year-old, who has seen his
share of recent health incidents, had
fallen ill but was in stable condition
and “doing fine,” his chief of staff Jean Becker told the Houston Chronicle.
The former president was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital and is expected to return home in several days, although the reason for his hospitalization was not provided, according to local CBS affiliate KHOU.
The oldest of the four living former US presidents, Bush, who served in office from 1989 to 1993, uses a wheelchair and has seemed frail in recent public appearances.
Bush is the patriarch of one of
America’s most prominent political
dynasties and is father to former US
president George W. Bush (2001-2009) and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who was a Republican contender in the US presidential primary.
In July 2015, the 41st president was
treated in a Maine hospital after
falling and breaking a bone in his
neck. The previous December, he was admitted to Houston Methodist
Hospital for breathing problems.
Bush was treated at the same facility in November 2012 for bronchitis, spending nearly two months in the hospital.
