US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin plans to be in hospital for health problems. On Friday, May 24, a Pentagon spokesman, Major General Pet Rayer, said Austin would be hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with the problem of bladder. This is a planned non -surgical procedure that temporarily restrict its ability to perform duties that will temporarily switch to Kathleen Hicks.
The Pentagon press service stressed that this problem is not related to the previously detected diagnosis of cancer in Lloyd Austin. The fact of hospitalization was reported by the White House and Congress.
In January this year, Austin was also hospitalized at the National Military Medical Center due to complications after the planned procedure. Within five days this fact was hidden. Austin continued to work from afar, but was later forced to return to the hospital with prostatitis. Although rumors were spreading about his resignation, he made a statement that he did not intend to be released.
