Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiadmitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Milanhas been diagnosed with leukemia.

As confirmed by sources close to Reuters and Corriere della Sera, who was on several occasions head of the Italian Executive has been diagnosed with this kind of blood cancer. Berlusconi, 86, was admitted to the San Rafael Hospital in Milan on Wednesday after he had trouble breathing.

In recent years, the media businessman has suffered numerous health problems. Last week he was released from the hospital where re-entered yesterday.

Berlusconi, leader of Italian politics in three different terms and whose formation is currently part of the ruling coalition led by the far-right Giorgia Meloni, has had a pacemaker implanted since 2006 and has health problems.

In 2020 he was admitted with coronavirus and bilateral pneumonia at San Raffaele, although he was discharged a few days later, although since then he has repeatedly visited the hospital, such as in January 2022, when he was also in the same center. hospitalized for a urinary tract infection.

“It’s a Rock”

“He is stable, he is a rock. His humor? Ours is good. He will also get out of this”, were the words of his brother Paolo after having visited him in the hospital.

The 86-year-old president of Forza Italia is in the general and cardiothoracic intensive care unit run by Professor Alberto Zangrillo, who has been his personal doctor for years and who today may give a medical report although his family has opted for maintaining the privacy of Berlusconi’s state of health, according to some media.

“He is in intensive care because a previous problem related to an infection had not been resolved. But he speaks and is awake,” explained the national coordinator of Forza Italia and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani.

His current partner, the deputy from his party Marta Fascina accompanied him to the hospital and has not left him for a moment. On Wednesday afternoon, her five children and the spokesperson for Forza Italia in the Senate, Licia Ronzulli, arrived.