Former US president George Bush Snr in intensive care with ‘persistent fever’
ByThe Courier Reporter
Former US president George HW Bush pictured in June with his wife Barbara.
FORMER US president George H.W. Bush has been admitted to a hospital intensive care unit “following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever”, but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said.
Jim McGrath, Mr Bush’s spokesman in Houston, said in a brief email that Mr Bush was admitted to the ICU at Methodist Hospital on Sunday.
He said doctors are cautiously optimistic about his treatment and that the former president “remains in guarded condition”.
Mr McGrath said Mr Bush is surrounded by family.
Mr Bush has been in hospital since mid-November.
Mr McGrath said a fever that kept Mr Bush in the hospital over Christmas had got worse and that doctors had put him on a liquids-only diet.
“It’s an elevated fever, so it’s actually gone up in the last day or two,” Mr McGrath said. “It’s a stubborn fever that won’t go away.”
Former US president George Bush Snr in intensive care with ‘persistent fever’
