Status: 04/16/2023 8:29 p.m
Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi’s health is apparently improving. The 86-year-old had been diagnosed with leukemia and was in intensive care because of a lung infection. He was now allowed to leave.
Silvio Berlusconi has left the intensive care unit at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital. According to his brother, the former Italian prime minister, who is suffering from leukemia, is now being treated in a normal ward for a lung infection. This is reported by the newspaper “Corriere della Sera”. The clinic declined to comment, but announced a statement on Berlusconi’s health for Monday.
Doctors had diagnosed Berlusconi with leukemia
The 86-year-old suffers from leukemia and was hospitalized on April 5. In the meantime there was speculation that his life was in danger. Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, which mainly affects older people, begins in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow and then spreads to the blood. Berlusconi’s cancer is in a “persistent chronic phase” and has not yet turned into “acute leukemia,” his doctors said.
In recent years, Berlusconi has had frequent health problems: in 2016 he had heart surgery, suffered from prostate cancer and was repeatedly hospitalized after contracting the corona virus in 2020.
Four times prime minister in Italy
According to experts, it is unclear who could succeed Berlusconi as head of the Forza Italia party, which is part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s governing coalition. Berlusconi went into politics in 1994. He has been Prime Minister of Italy four times over the years. He has been a Senator since the elections last September. Before entering politics, Berlusconi had begun building the largest television empire in Italy. The MFE media group is a major shareholder in ProSieben-Sat.1 and is managed by Berlusconi’s family.