(5 Apr 2023)
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Milan - 5 April 2023
1. Placard reading (Italian): “San Raffaele Hospital”
2. Various of journalists outside San Raffaele hospital where Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is hospitalised
3. Cars leaving hospital
4. Various of journalists outside hospital
5. Various of hospital exterior
STORYLINE:
Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalised Wednesday in intensive care because of a problem related to a previous infection, but was alert and speaking, Italy's foreign minister said.
The 86-year-old three-time premier was in the ICU at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, the clinic where he routinely receives care, said Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who is also a leader of Berlusconi's Forza Italia party. Speaking from Brussels, Tajani said Berlusconi was admitted because of an “unresolved problem" related to a previous infection.
Berlusconi has had a series of health problems in recent years, most significantly recovering from COVID-19 in 2020. He told reporters after being discharged from a 10-day hospital stay that the disease had been “insidious” and was the most dangerous challenge he had ever faced.
He has had a pacemaker for years, underwent heart surgery to replace an aortic valve in 2016 and has overcome prostate cancer. In January 2022 he was admitted for a reported urinary tract infection.
Berlusconi had been to San Raffaele, where his personal physician works, for a regular check-up for several days just last week. In a March 31 tweet after he returned home, Berlusconi thanked “all those who wanted to send a thought or sign of affection in these days.”
Berlusconi remains at the helm of Forza Italia, the centre-right party he created when he jumped into politics in the early 1990s, though the day-to-day running of the party has been left to underlings.
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