Rome, (EFE).- Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted today to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, three weeks after being discharged due to pneumonia aggravated by chronic leukemia that he has suffered for a long time, local media reported.
At the moment the reason for this entry is unknown, but next Sunday Berlusconi was scheduled to meet with the ministers of his party, the conservative Forza Italia (FI), within the current government coalition led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Entered on April 5
Berlusconi, 86, had to be admitted to the Intensive Care unit on April 5 due to pneumonia aggravated by leukemia that, according to what his medical team revealed at the time, he has been suffering from for a long time.
After twelve days he was transferred to the plant and was finally discharged on May 19, after having been hospitalized for 44 days.
During that time he was accompanied at all times by his girlfriend, the deputy Marta Fascina, 53 years younger, and received visits from his closest collaborators, from his partners, such as Meloni, and from his family, such as his five children, in addition of many friends.
From the hospital, the tycoon even appeared in two videos: one to encourage Italians to vote in local elections and another to intervene in his party’s convention, in which he claimed to be “ready” to return to battle. .
“Lung infection”
The medical report from his trusted doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, revealed that Berlusconi was being treated for a “lung infection” caused by “a chronic hematological condition that he has been carrying for a long time: chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.”
Chronic myeloid leukemia is a form of blood cancer that can appear especially in people over 60 years of age and the doctors then specified that he was undergoing “specialized cytoreductive treatment” and chemotherapy.
Over the years, Berlusconi has been hospitalized on several occasions: on one of them a pacemaker was implanted, while he was also admitted for Covid and in one of the most recent, in January 2022, he was admitted for an infection. urinary.