Daily Times

Former president of the United States George HW Bush has been hospitalised in Houston, American media agencies reported on Wednesday, citing the chief of staff of his office, Jean Becker.

Becker informed media that Bush, 92, was in stable condition and was expected to go home in a couple of days. Media agencies were unable to reach family spokesman Jim McGrath or the hospital for comments.

Bush is the father of former president George W Bush and former governor of Florida Jeb Bush, who sought the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

The elder Bush, a republican like his sons, served as vice president during Ronald Reagan’s two White House terms before being elected president in 1988. He served four years in the White House.

Bush has been on a wheelchair in recent years, and was hospitalised twice in 2014, once for seven weeks with pneumonia and once for breathing difficulties. In July 2015, he broke a bone in his neck in a fall at the family home in Maine.

Since entering his 90s, Bush has rarely made public appearances. He marked the 75th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 2016 by attending a ceremony at his library in Texas A&M University, where Bob Dole, the former republican senator from Kansas, was presented an award for public service.