Berlusconi’s associates and relatives affirm that he is optimistic and in better health

Political associates and family members who have been able to speak with Silvio Berlusconi They assure that the tycoon is conscious and trust that his health can improve, while he receives in a hospital in Milan (north) intensive care for pneumonia complicated by leukemia suffering.

The Vice President of Italy and Minister of Transport, Matteo Salviniassured that Berlusconi himself called his phone after receiving a message from him and that it was the “most beautiful call I could receive.”

“We are waiting for you soon”, Salvini added about the telephone conversation, which took place in the middle of a Council of Ministers.

Also the Prime Minister Giorgia Melonispoke with the leader of Forza Italythe party with which he forms the government coalition, although he did not reveal the content of his conversation.

For his part, valentino valentini, a member of Forza Italia and Vice Minister of Business, said that after speaking with his relatives he has noticed “hope and optimism”. “As his brother Paolo says, the president is a rock, I hope he comes back soon,” he told the news channel. SkyTg24.

Paolo was precisely the only family member who spoke to the press after the doctors at the St. Raphael Hospital confirm that Berlusconi suffers from “chronic myelomonocytic leukemia” and that this in turn has been complicated by a “lung infection”.

“We are calmer, there is an improvement. We trust”Paolo affirmed when leaving the medical center, which he described as “one of the best” and will allow Berlusconi “again” to come out “stronger”.

His children Marina, Barbara, Piersilvio and Luigi have also left the hospital, while his partner, the Forza Italia deputy Marta Fascina, has stayed in the hospital overnight and has not separated from him.

Doctors treating the former Italian prime minister, also the owner of a media empire, confirmed Thursday that he has chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

“President Silvio Berlusconi is currently hospitalized in intensive care for treatment of a lung infection. The infection is part of a chronic hematological condition of which he has been a carrier for some time ”indicated a newsletter signed by Alberto Zangrillohis regular doctor, and Dr. Fabio Ciceri.

This is the first official communication on the state of health of the political and 86-year-old businessman, who was admitted on Wednesday morning, after which the Italian press leaked that in addition to suffering from pneumonia, he had also begun chemotherapy treatment.

The doctors confirmed the diagnosis of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, which they have detected in “persistent chronic phase and absence of developmental features in acute leukemia”.

For its part, his political formation, Forza Italia, reported in a note that Berlusconi, 86, telephoned this morning the national coordinator of the formation, Antonio Tajani and the group’s spokesman in the Chamber, Paolo Barelli and other leaders of the party

He asked all of them “the maximum commitment in Parliament, in the government and in Forza Italia because ‘the country needs us!’”.

Berlusconi, whose formation is currently part of the ruling coalition led by the far-right Giorgia MeloniHe has had a pacemaker implanted since 2006 and has health problems.

In 2020 he was admitted with coronavirus and bilateral pneumonia in the San Rafael, although he was discharged a few days later, although since then he has repeatedly passed through the hospital.

The last one, also at the San Rafael hospital, was in January 2022 due to a urinary tract infection.

Source: EFE Agency.