Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi again in hospital
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taly’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was re-admitted to hospital on Friday for a scheduled medical checkup, simply weeks after being discharged following a protracted keep.
Berlusconi, 86, left San Raffaele Hospital final month after six weeks of remedy for a lung an infection linked to a persistent myelomonocytic leukaemia, a sort of most cancers that impacts the white blood cells.
The San Raffaele hospital stated the checks, which got here sooner than deliberate, weren’t associated to “any criticality or alarm” and responded “to clinical criteria of normal practice in medicine”.
Berlusconi has served as prime minister for 3 separate intervals since and, though he doesn’t have a direct position in authorities, his Forza Italia occasion is a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition.
His well being has deteriorated lately, with open-heart surgical procedure in 2016 and quite a few hospital admissions since contracting Covid three years in the past.
“Come on, Silvio,” Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, one in all Berlusconi’s foremost political allies, wrote in an Instagram submit.
Mr Salvini stated he had spoken with Berlusconi through phone and requested for reassurance on his well being.
During his earlier hospitalisation, Berlusconi remained politically lively, showing in two video messages through which he appeared frail however insisted he was able to return to work.