The three-time Prime Minister of Italy and president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, has spent his second night hospitalized in the general and cardio-thoracic intensive care unit of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan “calm and is reacting positively to the treatment,” he explained. today the coordinator of the party and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani.
“Doctor Alberto Zangrillo has told me that he has rested well, is in intensive care and is reacting positively to the treatment and this gives us hope,” Tajani said in a Rai 3 channel program, after speaking with the director of the care unit. intensive hospital and personal doctor of the leader of Forza Italia.
Berlusconi, 86, was admitted last Wednesday and this Thursday the first medical report was issued in which it was confirmed that he has suffered “chronic myelomonocytic leukemia for a long time” which is being treated with light chemotherapy because it has worsened in the last few months and is hospitalized “to treat a lung infection”.
During yesterday’s session, Berlusconi called his party leaders in the morning and his allies in the government in the afternoon: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Vice President and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini.
Some of his children and his brother Paolo, as well as the president of Mediaset, returned to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. Fedele Confalonieri and the one who was for years his right arm Marcello Dell’Utri. “There is concern but we are optimistic,” said Fedele Confalonieri, while his brother said: “We are more relieved, there is an improvement. We are confident.” “He is a lion,” said Pier Silvio, the second son of Silvio Berlusconi, as he left the San Raffaele.
Berlusconi had already been hospitalized in San Raffaele last week for what were described as “medical checks”, but his conditions were not described as worrying. Over the years, Berlusconi has been the subject of several hospitalizations: one of the most recent, in January 2022, was necessary for a urinary infection.
