Italian Vice President and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said that Berlusconi called his phone after receiving a message from him and that it was “the best phone I’ve ever gotten”.
“We are waiting for you as soon as possible”Salvini added the phone call that took place in the middle of the Council of Ministers.
also prime ministerGiorgia Meloni spoke to the leader of Forza Italia, The party in which the government coalition is formed, although he did not reveal the content of his speech.
Valentino Valentini, a Forza Italia member and Deputy Minister of Commerce, said he noticed “hope and optimism” after speaking with relatives. “As his brother Paolo said, president a stoneI hope he’ll be back soon,” he told SkyTg24 news channel.
Paul exactly only relative speaking to the press After San Rafael Hospital doctors confirmed that Berlusconi had “chronic myelomonocytic leukemia,” which was complicated by a “lung infection.”
“We are calmer, there is an improvement. we trustPaolo confirmed this as he left the medical center, which he described as “one of the best” and where Berlusconi would “make him come out” “stronger” again.
His children Marina, Barbara, Piersilvio and Luigi also left the hospital, while his partner, Forza Italia MP Marta Fascina, stayed overnight in the hospital and did not leave him.
Doctors who treated the former Italian prime minister, who also owns a media empire, confirmed this Thursday. You have chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
“President Silvio Berlusconi, He is currently in intensive care for the treatment of a lung infection. The infection is part of a chronic haematological condition that he has been carrying for some time,” he said.
This was the first official statement about the health status of the 86-year-old politician and businessman, who was hospitalized on Wednesday morning, after which the Italian press leaked that he also started chemotherapy treatment in addition to pneumonia.
Doctors confirmed a diagnosis of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. “persistent chronic phase and absence of developmental features in acute leukemia”.
In a note, his political formation, Forza Italia, reported that Berlusconi, 86, called this morning the formation’s national coordinator, Antonio Tajani, and the group’s Parliamentary speaker Paolo Barelli and other leaders of the party.
asked all “Maximum commitment in parliament, government and Forza Italia because ‘the country needs us!’”.
Berlusconi, who is now part of the ruling coalition led by the far-right Giorgia Meloni, has been wearing a pacemaker since 2006 and has suffered from health problems.
He was hospitalized in San Rafael in 2020 with coronavirus and bilateral pneumonia, but was discharged a few days later, but has visited the hospital multiple times since then.
The last one, again at the San Rafael hospital, was in January 2022. due to urinary tract infection.