Former Italian head of government Silvio Berlusconi, 86, nicknamed “the Immortal” for his longevity in politics, left a hospital in Milan on Friday where he spent six weeks with leukemia and a lung infection.
Berlusconi got into a car with tinted windows around noon after leaving the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, the capital of Lombardy, where he was admitted on April 5, a photographer from the AFP instead.
He entered the prestigious hospital to treat problems related to a lung infection, but his doctors revealed that he was suffering from chronic leukemia.
In May, he addressed supporters in a video message from his hospital room, sitting behind a desk with the party banner and the Italian flag behind him.
After dominating Italian politics for decades, Berlusconi appears physically weakened in his few public appearances.
He is considered one of the richest men in Italy, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at 6.4 billion euros (about $6.9 billion).
He has been hospitalized several times in recent years. In January 2022 he had been hospitalized in San Raffaele to treat a urinary tract infection and a few months before that for more than three weeks due to “effects of covid-19” contracted in September 2020.
In 1997 he underwent surgery for a malignant prostate tumor, in 2016 he underwent open heart surgery and in 2019 a procedure to treat intestinal obstruction.
Source: Eluniverso
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