WASHINGTON: US Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted to intensive care final week for problems from prostate most cancers surgical procedure, medical doctors mentioned Tuesday (Jan 9), after he confronted criticism for ready days to tell the White Home about his prolonged hospital keep.
The 70-year-old’s failure to reveal his hospitalisation left high officers at midnight about his standing as Washington struggles to include the fallout from the Israel-Hamas warfare, which has sparked violence in opposition to American forces in Iraq and Syria in addition to assaults on worldwide delivery.
Austin’s “prostate most cancers was detected early and his prognosis is superb”, two medical doctors from Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Heart mentioned in an announcement launched by the Pentagon.
The most cancers was detected because of routine screening and Austin underwent a minor surgical process to deal with it on Dec 22, returning dwelling the next day, they mentioned.
However he was readmitted to the identical hospital on Jan 1 as a result of problems “together with nausea with extreme stomach, hip, and leg ache. Preliminary analysis revealed a urinary tract an infection”, necessitating additional remedy.
“He continues to make progress and we anticipate a full restoration though this could be a sluggish course of. Throughout this keep, Secretary Austin by no means misplaced consciousness and by no means underwent normal anaesthesia,” the medical doctors mentioned.
