Berlusconi from the hospital: It is difficult, but I will get out of this

Three-time prime minister of Italy and president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi who spent the second night in the hospital intensive care unit of San Raffaele Hospital in Milanassured: “It’s hard, but I’ll get out of this,” in a call to the newspaper’s director dailyAugusto Minzolini.

On Thursday afternoon, Berlusconi wanted to call the director of the family newspaper, which had been sold for years last March, and his words were collected in an editorial today. “I have always managed to get out of difficult and delicate situations,” added Berlusconi in a telephone conversation about which the editorial writes.

Minzolini explains that those who are currently accompanying the businessman, the founder of the Fininvest empire, are asking him not to try too hard, but to Berlusconi wants to talk and ends with, “I’ll see you as soon as I get out of here.”

Berlusconi (86) was admitted last Wednesday, and this Thursday the first medical report was published in which it was confirmed that he “suffers from chronic myelomonocytic leukemia»which is treated with light chemotherapy because in the last months he got worse and was hospitalized “for the treatment of a lung infection”.

A banner was placed in front of the hospital: “Come on, Silvio, Monza is with you», signed by a fan of the football club he owns.

Party coordinator and Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani explained that today he was able to speak with Dr. Alberto Zangrilla, director of the hospital’s ICU and the former president’s personal physician, and that he told him “he rested well and is responding positively to treatment.”

During the day on Thursday Berlusconi is also called in the morning to the leaders of his party, and in the afternoon to his allies in the government: the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgio Meloni and vice president and minister of infrastructure, Matteo Salvini.

Some of his children and his brother Paolo, as well as Mediaset president Fedele Confalonieri and Marcello Dell’Utri, who was his right-hand man for years, returned to the hospital to visit the former Italian prime minister. “There are concerns, but we are optimistic,” said Fedele Confalonieri, while his brother noted: “We are relieved, there are improvements. We believe.”

“He is a lion,” said Pier Silvio, Silvio Berlusconi’s second son, as he left San Raffaele.