Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter has been admitted into the hospital.
According to Fox News, Carter, 95, was admitted on Monday evening into Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in order to have a procedure to reduce pressure on his brain.
A statement released by the Carter Center said that the 39th President needed the procedure as a result of a recent fall that caused a brain bleed.
Statement about Jimmy Carter’s health pic.twitter.com/AUsaDTdRRB
— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) November 12, 2019
Mr. Carter has had several health scares in recent years, CBS News reports.
In 2015, the former president announced that he was receiving treatment for melanoma that had spread to his lungs and brain. Less than a year after announcing his diagnosis and after receiving immunotherapy drug treatments, Mr. Carter announced that an MRI showed no signs of cancer.
Then in May of 2019, Mr. Carter took a fall that left him with a broken hip.
Soon after the fall, however, Mr. Carter was back to teaching Sunday School lessons, something he does regularly at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.
In October, Mr. Carter fell several more times. This time the former president fractured his pelvis, leaving him hospitalized.
Mr. Carter’s neurological procedure was scheduled for Tuesday…
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