Former US President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalised in Houston with a recurrence of a case of pneumonia he had earlier in the year, a family spokesman said Tuesday.
The 92-year-old father of former President George W. Bush has been in Methodist Hospital since Friday for observation because of a persistent cough. His spokesman Jim McGrath made this known in a brief statement.
McGrath said doctors diagnosed a mild case of pneumonia that has been treated and resolved, Los Angeles Times reports.
The former president “is in very good spirits and is being held for further observation while he regains his strength,” he said.
Bush, who served as president from 1989 to 1993, had spent 16 days in the hospital for treatment of pneumonia in January.
He was hospitalised in 2015 in Maine after falling at his summer home and breaking a bone in his neck.
Bush was also hospitalised in Houston the previous December for about a week for shortness of breath and also spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues.
