Silvio Berlusconi’s doctor, who is treating him for a pneumonia, revealed on Saturday that the former Italian prime minister is responding well to treatment in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Milan, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
And “ANSA” reported that Doctor Alberto Zangrillo, who also heads the intensive care unit at San Raffaele Hospital, where the former politician and Italian media mogul was deposited on Wednesday, said that Berlusconi “is used to responding to the best of his ability” and that despite the “serious illness He’s in a really difficult situation, but he’s responding well to treatments.”
Zangrillo revealed earlier in the week that Berlusconi, 86, has been suffering from a chronic form of leukemia for some time.
On Saturday, the old chancellor visited Gianni Letta, the former prime minister. “I found him better than I thought,” he said, and was eager to recover.
“You know how every time he sets a goal he reaches it,” Leta told reporters outside the hospital.
In his remarks to reporters, Zangrillo referred to Berlusconi’s infection as a complication given Berlusconi’s chronic leukemia.
Earlier in the week, Berlusconi’s doctors said they were treating his lung infection and giving him medication to “restore the pre-existing clinical condition” of leukemia.
It is noteworthy that Berlusconi also has a history of heart problems. In 2020, he was admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 and pneumonia.