“He is in intensive care due to an infection problem that has not been resolved. But he speaks,” said Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, one of the main officials of Forza Italia, which is part of the coalition that supports the government of Giorgia Meloni.
“He will spend the night” in the hospital, said a medical source who requested anonymity.
“Cheer up, Silvio,” Giorgia Meloni tweeted, conveying her “sincere and affectionate wishes for a speedy recovery.”
A sincere and affectionate wish for prompt guidance to Silvio Berlusconi, who was awarded to San Raffaele di Milano. Force Silvio.
— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni)
April 5, 2023
Berlusconi’s health problems
The 86-year-old leader of Forza Italia has already been hospitalized in that Milanese hospital from Monday to Thursday for “medical checks,” according to sources close to the politician and businessman.
“I’m back to work (…), willing and determined to commit myself as I always did to the country I love,” he wrote on social media after leaving the hospital on Friday.
Berlusconi has had a pacemaker implanted since 2006 and has health problems.
The former prime minister underwent major open-heart surgery in 2016, and then an intestinal occlusion operation in the spring of 2019.
In 2020 he was admitted with coronavirus and bilateral pneumonia in San Rafael, although he was discharged a few days later, although since then he has repeatedly visited the hospital.
The last one, also at the San Rafael hospital, was in January 2022 due to a urinary tract infection.