The influential leader has seen bouts of health conditions and illness, including prostate cancer, heart surgery and routine hospital admissions since being infected with covid-19 in 2020.
Silvio Berlusconi, 86, who thrice served as prime minister of Italy, was admitted to the intensive care unit of San Raffaele hospital in Milan on Wednesday because of a lung infection and has been in treatment for chronic leukemia, a blood cancer, “for some time,” his doctors said in a statement Thursday.The chronic myelomonocytic leukemia is in a “persistent chronic phase” and is not acute, his doctors Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri wrote.
The influential leader has seen bouts of health conditions and illness, including prostate cancer, heart surgery and routine hospital admissions since being infected with thePaolo Barelli, head of Forza Italia in the lower house of Parliament, said on local television that he received a phone call from Berlusconi after his admission to the hospital. Berlusconi, who still leads the party, was still “concerned with parliamentary works,” Barelli said.
“The mere fact that he was focusing on the minute details of lower house work shows that it’s a fully capable person, and preserves his typical trait of precisely inquiring about what he wants to know,” Barelli said when asked how the former leader sounded on the call.became a billionaire media tycoon, helming an empire of television channels, magazines and a daily newspaper.
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