The medical team that follows the Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi expressed this Monday “cautiously optimistic” in relation to the “good results” of the treatment of the former prime minister, who is in an intensive care unit.
Berlusconi is hospitalized at the San Raffaele Hospital, in Milan (north), where he has been hospitalized since the 5th of this month.
“Cytoreductive, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory therapies are giving the expected results, which allows us to express cautious optimism. President Silvio Berlusconi remains in intensive care,” according to the medical bulletin, the second officially issued since his hospitalization.
In the first communication, the doctors confirmed that the 86-year-old Italian tycoon had suffered from leukemia for a long time and that he needed to be hospitalized urgently for a lung infection.
“In the last 48 hours there has been a progressive and constant improvement in the organic functions monitored,” he says in the latest update.
Italy has been speculating for days about the state of health of the country’s three-time prime minister, leader of the Forza Italia political party and director of Mediaset, one of the most important media empires in Italy and Europe, among other major companies for the Italian economy.
Among the health professionals who treat him is Alberto Zangrillo, Berlusconi’s regular doctor for decades, who admitted this weekend that the leader of Forza Italia suffers from “a serious pathology” and that he is in a “difficult” situation. , emphasizing, however, that “it is responding well to treatment.”
“I am calm, Berlusconi responds well to treatment. Especially since we are doing everything we can. I have a patient in front of me who is also a great friend, I cannot deny it, there is a very great personal involvement”, the doctor told the journalists who were covering the event and who were at the hospital.
For his part, the coordinator of Forza Italia and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, told the press that Berlusconi intends to reappear publicly on May 5 at the party convention, “vehemently” denying that there will be a succession in leadership of the political force.
Constantly accompanied by his family, Berlusconi has received several visits, among them, the Spanish news agency EFE observed, that of the president of Mediaset, Fedele Confalonieri, who, as the journalists left, said that there was “concern” about the state of health of the Italian tycoon, although there is “optimism”.
Last Friday, Berlusconi telephoned the director of Il Giornale, Augusto Minzolini, the newspaper’s editorial read today.
“It’s difficult, but I’m going to get ahead,” Berlusconi said in the editorial.
Since entering the hospital, Berlusconi has also been in contact with his party leaders and government allies, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Vice President and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini.
Berlusconi had already been hospitalized at San Raffaele last week for what were described as “medical tests”, but his condition was not considered worrying.
Over the years, Berlusconi suffered successive hospitalizations. In one of the most recent, in January 2022, he was hospitalized due to a urinary infection.
Source: TSF
