Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has died

He Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan due to leukemia from which he suffered for a long time, the Italian media reported today.

Last Friday, Berlusconi (86) was admitted for a series of “planned” examinations due to leukemia, and with his death, a key figure in Italian political life disappears.

For now, there is no official confirmation, but according to the same sources, the death occurred this morning, not long after the five children and his brother Paolo went to the hospital.

This raised all the alarms about his health condition which worsened last night.

Paolo and Berlcusconi’s older daughter, Marina, was the first to arrive at the medical center at around 9:30 a.m. (7:30 GMT) where they joined their partner Marta Fascini, 53 years his junior and always by his side, and later his other children, Eleonora, Barbara, Pier Silvio and Luigi.

Last Friday, his doctors assured that Berlusconi entered the Saint Raffaele Hospital to undergo “planned controls of his known hematological pathology” and that his admission did not respond to “any critical aspect or alarm”.

Berlusconi was thus back in hospital three weeks after being discharged, after spending 44 days in hospital with pneumonia aggravated by leukemia which, according to what his medical team discovered at the time, he had been suffering from for a long time.

During that time, his girlfriend, deputy Marta Fascina, 53 years his junior, accompanied him all the time, and he was visited by his closest colleagues, partners such as Giorgia Meloni and a family with five children, as well as many friends.

From the hospital, the tycoon even appeared in two videos: one to encourage Italians to vote in local elections and another to intervene at his party’s convention, in which he claimed he was “ready” to return to battle.

The medical part of your trusted doctor, Alberto Zangrillorevealed that Berlusconi was being treated for a “lung infection” caused by “a chronic hematological condition that he has had for a long time: chronic myelomonocytic leukemia”.

Chronic myeloid leukemia is a form of blood cancer that can occur especially in people over the age of 60, and the doctors then specified that he was under “specialized cytoreductive treatment” and chemotherapy.

Over the years, Berlusconi was hospitalized on several occasions: one of them had a pacemaker implanted, and he was also admitted for covid-19, and in one of the last ones, in January 2022, he was admitted for a urinary infection.