17 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has left the intensive care unit this Sunday, thanks to an improvement in his health, despite the fact that he will continue to be admitted to the Milan hospital where he has been for almost two weeks.
“Everything is fine. Very calmly. (…) I hope they finish this work of theirs soon: it means that everything is going well”, explained the brother of the leader of Forza Italia, Paolo Berlusconi, who has confirmed the departure of Silvio from the ICU, during a visit to the hospital, reports the newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’.
Regarding the health conditions of the former head of the Italian Government, the doctors mention an “additional constant improvement in respiratory and renal function”, since he is hospitalized for pneumonia caused as a complication of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia that he has suffered for for a long time. time.
Berlusconi, 86 years old and prime minister on three occasions, –1994-1995, 2001-2006 and 2008-2011–, has been hospitalized since April 5. The conservative leader had already spent several days hospitalized in the same center the previous week.
His party mate and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, stated on Wednesday that Berlusconi is progressing favorably and even expressed confidence in the senator’s attendance at a major Forza Italia event scheduled for May 5 and 6 in Milan.
