In Italy they say that the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi suffers from leukemia and his conditions are serious

The four-time former prime minister, multitasking business tycoon, king of private television, and controversial conservative Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi suffers leukemiaItalian newspapers announced on Thursday.

Berlusconi has been hospitalized for three days in the San Rafael hospital in Milan, officially for cardiopulmonary problems. Doctors treating him in the cardiology intensive care unit of the huge private clinic said yesterday he should stay there indefinitely because he had a persistent lung infection.

The Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera broke the news that Berlusconi’s condition goes from delicate to serious. “Pneumonia is caused by leukemia,” says Italy’s leading newspaper.

Berlusconi spoke by phone on Wednesday with the leaders of his party, Forza Italia, which is one of three members of the governing coalition.

This was reported by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who is number two in the party and who would take over as the new leader if Berlusconi does not continue.

Tajani said Berlusconi had encouraged the entire party to close ranks. Force Italy has five ministers in the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. “The country needs us and maximum commitment is needed in parliamentary activity,” said Berlusconi, according to Tajani.

The announcement in the newspaper has increased the anxiety to know the medical bulletin promised by the doctors for Thursday morning. A crowd of reporters Italians and foreigners stand guard in the central square of the large hospital.

Only a few relatives had access to the intensive care unit Q. Among them their five children, Marina, Piersilvio Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi. Even her partner, the deputy Marta Fascina.

Berlusconi was hospitalized for four days, until March 30, and returned to his stately home in Arcore, a suburb of Milan.

Doctors were reportedly studying complications in the lungs. Berlusconi was cured covid virus contagion in 2020which had caused him to have double pneumonia.

It is known that the patient “He’s awake and communicating” and that doctors try to restore proper blood oxygenation to relieve the stress suffered by the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

It has emerged since Wednesday that the biggest concerns are “blood problems” according to health sources During the night the news leaked that the lung problem was the result of a blood disease, “probably leukemia”.

At midnight, when Berlusconi’s personal doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, was seen leaving the polyclinic, the journalists who questioned him about the patient’s condition limited themselves to saying: “Go to sleep”.

Various operations and hospitalizations​

Berlusconi has undergone several operations and prolonged hospitalizations, causing concern for his health conditions. In 1997 he underwent surgery for prostate cancer at the San Rafael hospital. In 2006 he underwent surgery in Antwerp (Belgium) to remove a fragment of the meniscus.

In November of that year he had to be hospitalized after feeling ill from an act in the town of Montecatini by his Forza Italia party. A month later he traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, where a pacemaker was implanted.

In December 2009 he suffered Attack in Piazza Duomo in Milan. He was attacked by a mental patient who hit him in the face with a metal statuette from the cathedral. Berlusconi had to undergo several surgeries.

In 2010 he underwent surgery for left hand tendonitis and in 2013 for left eye disease. In the San Rafael hospital he was admitted twice for minor operations in 2014.

In 2015 it was replaced the pacemaker of the heart and in 2016 underwent cataract surgery. Two years later he was operated on for an intestinal obstruction and in 2020 he was infected with the Covid pandemic virus.

Since then he has had to undergo several hospitalizations because Covid has left traces in his apparently weak lungs.

GD and ap