Elder Bush in hospital after fall at home
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Former US president George HW Bush was in fair condition at a Maine hospital yesterday after suffering a neck fracture in a fall at his home, according to spokesmen for Bush and the hospital.
After being taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland following the fall on Wednesday, Bush, who served as America’s 41st president, was initially described as stable. Yesterday morning hospital spokesman Matt Paul said the 91-year-old Bush was in “fair condition.”
“41 fell at home in Maine today and broke a bone in his neck,” Bush’s spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement posted on Twitter following the accident. “His condition is stable — he is fine — but he’ll be in a neck brace.”
McGrath told CNN the former president was never disoriented and that his stay at the medical center was not expected to be long.
Bush was last hospitalized in Houston for a week in December 2014 after experiencing breathing difficulties.
Bush is the father of President George W Bush and of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who is now seeking the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election.
The elder Bush, a Republican like his sons, served as vice president for eight years during Ronald Reagan’s two terms in the White House before being elected president, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee, in 1988.
He took office in 1989 and served four years in the White House, during which he organized the US-led military coalition that defeated Iraqi forces after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
He lost his 1992 re-election bid to Democrat Bill Clinton.
Bush suffers from Parkinson’s disease and can’t use his legs.
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