Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi underwent a profitable hip alternative after being hospitalized throughout a visit to Luxembourg, her workplace stated Saturday.
“Earlier this morning, Speaker Emerita Pelosi underwent a profitable hip alternative and is effectively on the mend,” spokesperson Ian Krager stated in a press release.
The operation was carried out at Landstuhl Regional Medical Heart at Landstuhl Military Base in Germany, her workplace stated. The Protection Division offered medevac assist to move Pelosi there from Luxembourg.
The spokesperson added, “Speaker Pelosi is grateful to U.S. navy workers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Heart at Landstuhl Military Base and medical workers at Hospital Kirchberg in Luxembourg for his or her glorious care and kindness.”
Pelosi was in Luxembourg as a part of a congressional delegation to mark the eightieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, CBS Information beforehand reported. Pelosi “sustained an harm throughout an official engagement.” She was admitted to Kirchberg Hospital within the northeast of Luxembourg Metropolis hospital for analysis.
Sources conversant in the matter advised CBS Information that Pelosi injured her left leg in a fall. Krager declined to specify the character or severity of the harm on the time.
Pelosi, 84, served as Democratic chief within the Home for 20 years, together with two stints as speaker, earlier than stepping apart two years in the past. She gained one other time period to signify her San Francisco district in Congress in November, and stays an influential get together determine, with the title of speaker emerita.
