Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ha released from the intensive care unitthanks to a improvement in your healthdespite the fact that he will continue to be admitted to the Milan hospital where it’s been almost two weeks.

“Everything is fine. Very calmly. (…) I hope they finish this work of theirs soon: it means that everything is going well”, explained the brother of the leader of Forza Italia, Paolo Berlusconi, who has confirmed the departure of Silvio from ICU, during a hospital visit.

Regarding the health conditions of the former head of the Italian Government, the doctors mention a “further steady improvement in respiratory function and renal”, since he is hospitalized for pneumonia caused as leukemia complication chronic myelomonocytic disease that he has suffered for a long time.

Berlusconi, 86 years old and Prime Minister of Italy on three occasions, -1994-1995, 2001-2006 and 2008-2011-, has been hospitalized since April 5. The conservative leader had already spent several days hospitalized in the same center the previous week.

His party mate and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, affirmed on Wednesday that Berlusconi is progressing favorably and even expressed confidence in the senator’s attendance at a major Forza Italia event scheduled for May 5 and 6 in Milan.