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Mr Bush’s spokesman Jim McGrath said the former president is improving and his spirits are good.

BOSTON Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush is in truthful situation and recovering in a Maine hospital after breaking a bone in his neck in a fall at his summer time residence, his spokesman stated on Thursday. “His condition is stable – he is fine – but he’ll be in a neck brace”.

The 91-year-old Bush took a tumble at his summer home in Kennebunkport on Wednesday and remains hospitalized.

A statement released today from the office of George H W Bush said that “the president never lost consciousness, and the injury he sustained neither impinged on his spine nor resulted in any neurological deficits”.

“It is a significant injury, but right now the President is in excellent shape, and we would anticipate that he would make a full recovery”, Dr. William D’Angelo, his attending physician at Maine Medical Center in Portland, said Thursday.

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He has a broken bone in his vertebrae in his neck but “it was not life threatening” McGrath said.

He celebrated a low-key 91st birthday with his family at the home on the Maine coast. “He is doing great”.

Bush, 91, suffers from a form of Parkinson’s Disease and uses a motorized scooter to get around, according to the Associated Press. He spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care at the same Houston hospital for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues. He was after experiencing shortness of breath. He lost to Democrat Bill Clinton amid voters’ concerns about the economy after one term, highlighted by the success of the 1991 Gulf War in Kuwait.

His family is in good spirits as well. He also served as ambassador to the United Nations, envoy to China and Central Intelligence Agency director. His wife Barbara accompanied him.