DHAKA:Former US president Bill Clinton has praised the strength and health of his wife, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, dismissing a top Republican’s public doubts about her well-being.

‘As far as I can tell, she’s in better shape than I am,’ Clinton, a Democrat, said of his wife, 66, reports the BBC.

Hillary, said to be weighing a 2016 presidential bid, fell ill in 2012.

Last week, Karl Rove questioned her capacity for the White House and reportedly said she had brain damage.

The New York Post reported on Tuesday that Rove, the strategist behind George W Bush’s election to the White House, had told an audience in Los Angeles last week, ‘Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that’.

In fact, Hillary was in hospital for three days after falling ill with a stomach bug in December 2012.

After becoming severely dehydrated, Hillary fell at home and struck her head, suffering a concussion. While she was in hospital doctors diagnosed a blood clot.

BDST: 1353 HRS, MAY 14, 2014