Ward 8 Councilman Marion Barry has been hospitalized in Las Vegas, a Nevada hospital said Monday.
The District’s only four-term mayor was being treated at a Nevada hospital for a blood clot, WRC-TV said, adding that it had spoken briefly with Barry.
An official at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center confirmed to The Washington Examiner that the former mayor was a patient, but had no other information.
The medical history of Barry, 76, is lengthy. In 2009, he received a kidney transplant, and he has acknowledged that he has diabetes and high blood pressure.
“The fact that I’ve been here 76 years is in itself almost a miracle,” Barry told The Examiner in an April interview.
On Sunday evening, Barry tweeted that he had been hospitalized, and he thanked the “outstanding medical staff, incl. kind professional Filipino staff.”
Last month, Barry found himself at the center of a political firestorm after making remarks about Filipino nurses in the District.
By Sunday, though, Barry acknowledged he was wrong. “I stand corrected,” Barry wrote on Twitter. “I truly didn’t mean 2 hurt or offend.”
Barry is one of the District officials traveling to Las Vegas this week to press retailers to invest in the city. Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chairman Kwame Brown are among the other D.C. officials in the delegation.
A spokesman for Gray said he had no information about Barry’s condition.
