This Thursday the reason for the admission to the ICU of the former Italian prime minister has emerged Silvio Berlusconi: The politician suffers from leukemia and has already begun “the first chemotherapy treatments”, according to the latest update on his state of health.
“Berlusconi is currently hospitalized in intensive care for the treatment of a lung infection. The infectious event is part of (…) chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, whose chronic phase persists,” says the bulletin signed by Dr. Alberto Zangrillo, collects dnaKronos.
The objective of the therapy to which the former Italian prime minister is now undergoing is to “limit the effects of leukemia” and achieve the “reestablishment of pre-existing clinical conditions”, the newspaper notes. The Republic.
Berlusconi, leader of the Fuerza Italia formation, entered the San Rafael hospital in Milan on Wednesday where, as reported this morning by his party mate and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, he spent a “quiet” night and in “stable conditions “.
According to a statement from Forza Italia, Tajani and other colleagues have spoken by telephone with Berlusconi, who has asked them not neglect their tasks, because “the country needs them“. The Foreign Minister, as well as the leader of the group in the Chamber, Paolo Barelli, among others, have wished him a speedy recovery.
Rumors have emerged since early in the morning that Berlusconi could suffer from leukemia and, questioned about this matter on the RLT 102.5 radio station, Barelli has preferred “not to go into specific details” and has limited himself to informing that the former prime minister suffers an infection “from something he already had.”
Berlusconi, 86, was already hospitalized between March 27 and 30 and, upon leaving the medical center, declined to make statements to the press. His party is part of the current government coalition, headed by Giorgia Meloni.