Journalists gathered in front of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, where Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized on Friday June 9, 2023. CLAUDIA GRECO / Portal
Silvio Berlusconi, 86 years old and suffering from leukemia, was hospitalized in Milan on Friday June 9 for check-ups which, according to his doctors, have been brought forward.
The former Italian Prime Minister “is currently in the San Raffaele Hospital for planned examinations” related to his leukemia, doctors Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri said in a press release, adding that this hospitalization “is not linked to any urgent or acute situation.” be problem.
“These controls were already planned, they were just brought forward by a few days,” said Antonio Tajani, vice-president of the council and number two of the Forza Italia party, of the Askanews agency.
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“The immortal”
Silvio Berlusconi left San Raffaele Hospital on May 19 after spending 45 days there. He had been admitted because of a weakness associated with pneumonia, but his doctors had determined he had chronic leukaemia.
Silvio Berlusconi, nicknamed “the Immortal” for his longevity in politics and one of the richest men in the peninsula, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at €6.4 billion, has been hospitalized several times in recent years delivered.
In January 2022, he was in San Raffaele Hospital due to a urinary tract infection. In April, he had also been hospitalized for more than three weeks for “Covid-19 complications” that he contracted in September 2020.
He also underwent major open-heart surgery in 2016, followed by surgery for an intestinal obstruction in spring 2019. In 1997 he had an operation for a malignant tumor in the prostate.
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