Berlusconi was hospitalized in early April. After twelve days in the intensive care unit, he was treated in the regular ward.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi left the San Raffaele clinic in Milan on Friday, where he spent 45 days. The 86-year-old elderly man left the clinic accompanied by his companion Marta Fascina and waved to the journalists who were waiting for him.
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomed Berlusconi’s discharge from hospital. “Silvio, we are waiting for you to do many more fights together,” tweeted Meloni.
Chronic leukemia and pneumonia
Berlusconi was hospitalized in early April. He was treated in the intensive care unit for twelve days for chronic leukemia and pneumonia. He was then able to leave the intensive care unit and be transferred to a normal ward.
Berlusconi shaped Italian political life for decades. The right-wing populist and media entrepreneur was Italy’s prime minister four times from 1994 to 2011 with interruptions.
He has been in poor health for years. At the end of 2020 he fell ill with Corona and pneumonia. In previous years, he had to be hospitalized because of a urinary tract infection. In 2016, he underwent heart surgery.