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Silvio Berlusconi reacts positively to the treatment: “This gives us hope”

Silvio Berlusconi reacts positively to the treatment: "This gives us hope"

The three-time Prime Minister of Italy and President of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconihas spent his second night hospitalized in the hospital’s general and cardio-thoracic intensive care unit Saint raffaele of Milan “Calm down and he is reacting positively to the treatment,” the party coordinator and Foreign Minister explained this Friday, Antonio Tajani.

“The doctor alberto zangrillo He has told me that he has rested well, is in intensive care and is reacting positively to the treatment and this us gives hope“, said Tajani in a program on the Rai 3 channel, after speaking with the director of the hospital’s intensive care unit and personal doctor of the leader of Forza Italia.

Berlusconi, from 86 yearswas admitted last Wednesday and this Thursday the first medical report was issued in which it was confirmed that he has suffered “chronic myelomonocytic leukemia for a long time” that is being treated with light chemotherapy because it has worsened in recent months and is hospitalized “to treat a lung infection.”

[Silvio Berlusconi es diagnosticado de leucemia mientras permanece en cuidados intensivos]

During yesterday’s session, Berlusconi called his party leaders in the morning and his government allies in the afternoon: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Vice President and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini

Some of his children and his brother Paolo, as well as the president of Mediaset, returned to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. Fedele Confalonieri and the one who was for years his right arm Marcello Dell’Utri.

“There is concern but we are optimistic,” said Fedele Confalonieri, while his brother said: “We are more relieved, there is improvement. We are confident.”

“He’s a lion,” Pier Silvio, Silvio Berlusconi’s second son, said as he left the San Raffaele.

Berlusconi had already been hospitalized at San Raffaele last week for what were described as “medical checks”, but his conditions were not described as worrying. Over the years, Berlusconi has been the subject of several hospitalizations: one of the most recent, in January 2022, was necessary for a urinary infection.

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