The health of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, hospitalized for leukemia and a lung infection, is improving, doctors said yesterday, expressing “cautious optimism” about his condition. The tycoon and key figure in Italian politics has been in intensive care at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan since last Wednesday.
“In the last 48 hours, a progressive and constant improvement in the function of the monitored organs was observed,” his doctors stated. The treatment is giving “the expected results, which allows us to express cautious optimism.”
Doctors revealed Thursday that he was being treated for a lung infection and that he had chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), a rare type of blood cancer that mainly affects older adults.
The former three-time Prime Minister of Italy and who currently serves as a senator and leader of the far-right Forza Italia party has suffered from deteriorating health in recent years, with frequent hospitalizations.
Forza Italia is one of the member parties of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition government.
