Berlusconi, hospitalized again for "scheduled" controls for his leukemia

Three weeks after being discharged, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has once again been admitted to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
08 June 2023 Thursday 22:24
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Berlusconi, hospitalized again for "scheduled" controls for his leukemia

Three weeks after being discharged, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has once again been admitted to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. According to a statement from his medical team, the tycoon went to the center this Friday to undergo a series of medical tests for "scheduled" controls for chronic leukemia that he has suffered for a year, and, although they have advanced these tests, they have ruled out that suffers any "critical aspect or alarm".

“President Silvio Berlusconi is currently admitted to the San Raffaele Hospital to undergo programmed controls for his well-known hematological pathology. The advance, to today, of these controls responds to normal clinical criteria in medical practice and does not respond to any critical aspect or alarm, ”say his doctors, Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri.

The 86-year-old three-time Italian Prime Minister thus returns to the hospital where he spent 45 days admitted, from the beginning of April to May 19, for pneumonia aggravated by this leukemia that was unknown until then. Berlusconi spent twelve days in the intensive care unit until he managed to be transferred to the plant. When he was better, he resumed his political activity recording videos from the hospital to encourage people to vote in municipal elections and to intervene in the coalition of his party, Forza Italia.

As on that occasion, one of the first to visit him was his eldest daughter and right eye, Marina Berlusconi, the heiress to his Fininvest empire. She has also called him the leader of the Italian League and Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, who has wished him a speedy recovery and with whom he has briefly joked on the phone about soccer.

With this advance of the medical tests, Berlusconi could miss a weekend in which he had planned to welcome the leaders of his party and the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, whom he supports in the government coalition, to his mansion in Arcore. of rights. In his party they have leaked that he could spend the night in the hospital.