Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi in intensive care due to heart issues: Reports
Silvio Berlusconi
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been admitted to the intensive care at Milan's San Raffaele hospital for heart problems. The 86-year-old media tycoon has made several trips to the hospital in recent years due to repeated bouts of ill health. He came out of the hospital just last week.
Italian news agency Ansa reported that Berlusconi was admitted on Wednesday morning and his condition was "stable".
"He has been admitted to intensive care because a problem caused by an infection has not been resolved but he is speaking," Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, a long-time ally of Berlusconi, told reporters in Brussels.
Local media reports suggest that Berlusconi was taken to the hospital after complaining of breathing problems.Reportedly, as per some sources in Forza Italia, Berlusconi is in intensive care and is being treated in a cardiac unit.
San Raffaele Hospital did not respond to a request for comment. A statement on Berlusconi's condition was expected to be made on Wednesday evening.
Berlusconi had earlier spent four days at the same hospital before being discharged last week on March 30. Italian news reports suggest that he is suffering from heart issues.
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Earlier, after the pandemic hit, he was hospitalised for Covid-related pneumonia in September 2020. Later he developed complications linked to Covid and was admitted several times the next year.
Berlusconi had open-heart surgery in 2016 and surgery on his intestine three years later. He has also hadheprostate cancer.
Berlusconi's Forza Italia party is one of the members ofPrime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing coalition. However, he does not have a role in the government.
Berlusconi's fortune is largely due to his commercial television channels. He shot into the international limelight as the owner of European soccer champions AC Milan, much before he entered politics in 1994.
(With inputs from agencies)
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