Bill Clinton, 75, admitted to intensive care at hospital with ‘sepsis’

Former President Bill Clinton seen in East Hampton, New York, in August (Picture: John Roca Photography/Mega)

Bill Clinton was rushed to hospital after reportedly being struck down by sepsis.

The former US President, 75, was admitted to the intensive care unit at the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening.

Doctors reportedly said the decision to put him in ICU was mainly to give him privacy, while his spokesperson insisted he is recovering from the blood infection and in ‘good spirits’.

Clinton went to the hospital after feeling fatigued and was diagnosed with an infection of the bloodstream that doctors believe started as a urinary tract infection.

His physicians, Alpesh Amin and Lisa Bardack, said he was ‘admitted to the hospital for close monitoring and administered IV antibiotics and fluids.’

‘He remains at the hospital for continuous monitoring,’ they said in a statement. ‘After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well.’

They added: ‘We hope to have him go home soon.’

The former Democrat politician, who was president from 1993 to 2001, has had past health issues, including a quadruple bypass surgery in 2004, and a 2010 procedure to open a blocked artery in his heart with two stents.

Bill and Hillary Clinton attend a memorial for the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (Picture: AP)

However, Clinton’s current hospital stay is reportedly not related to his heart issues.

He came to the White House by defeating incumbent president George H.W. Bush.

Clinton won re-election in 1996 against long-time Republican Senator Bob Dole.

The former Arkansas governor endured many bruising political battles with Republicans.

He was impeached in 1998 by the Republican-led House of Representatives over his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, but remained in office when the Senate acquitted him in 1999.

Clinton morphed into a political husband after leaving office, when his wife Hillary Clinton was elected US senator from New York in 2000.

She unsuccessfully sought the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and won the party’s 2016 nomination before losing the election to Donald Trump.

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