Hospitalization in Milan
Silvio Berlusconi’s health is improving – doctors “cautiously optimistic”
Italy’s ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has chronic leukemia
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Italy’s ex-president Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized with chronic leukemia. The 86-year-old is now doing a little better, his doctors say.
According to the doctors treating him, the health of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is improving “gradually and steadily”. The therapies the 86-year-old is undergoing have shown the expected results, so one can be “cautiously optimistic,” said a statement signed by his doctors on Monday at the San Raffaele clinic in Milan.
The monitored organ function has improved accordingly in the past 48 hours. Berlusconi has been in intensive care at the hospital since Wednesday for pneumonia and chronic leukemia.
The right-wing populist politician, who headed four governments with interruptions from 1994 to 2011, was admitted to the Milan clinic five days ago. Initially, there was talk of cardiovascular and respiratory problems. After it became known that Berlusconi was suffering from chronic leukemia, Italian media reported that he had already started chemotherapy. Even in the now second official bulletin of his personal physician Alberto Zangrillo on Monday, he did not comment on this.