Global Courant 2023-04-16 22:24:17
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ROME (AP) — Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who suffers from chronic leukemia, has been transferred from an intensive care unit to a regular ward at a hospital in Milan, where he is being treated for a lung infection. Sunday.
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“Everything okay, he is from intensive care,” Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera quoted Paolo Berlusconi as saying before visiting his 86-year-old sibling at San Raffaele Hospital.
The Italian news agency LaPresse also said the brother confirmed the transfer from the ICU to the hospital, where he was admitted on April 5.
The hospital declined to comment on the report, but said it would release a medical bulletin on Berlusconi’s condition on Monday.
Matteo Salvini, a longtime right-wing ally of Berlusconi, and currently government minister, tweeted “Good luck, Silvio, my friend” and linked his wishes in the tweet to Corriere’s report.
Berlusconi was hospitalized for treatment of what his doctors say is a lung infection. During his hospitalization, his doctors, including his old personal physician, publicly revealed that the former three-time prime minister has chronic leukaemia.
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Berlusconi has also had serious heart problems in recent years and was admitted to the same hospital in critical condition in 2020 for treatment of COVID-19.
His Forza Italia party, which he founded some 30 years ago, and Salvini’s anti-migrant league are junior partners in the government led by far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Unlike Salvini, who is Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Berlusconi does not hold a government role.
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