The health of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi continues to improve, according to the doctors treating him.
In the last 72 hours, the 86-year-old former prime minister said there had been a “further steady improvement in respiratory and kidney function,” according to a statement signed by his doctors from the San Raffaele clinic in Milan. He also had to be treated in the intensive care unit. Berlusconi has been in the hospital for around a week for pneumonia and chronic leukemia.
Already on Monday, the doctors spoke in an official statement of a “gradual and constant” improvement in his state of health. The therapies that Berlusconi is undergoing have shown the expected results, so one can be “cautiously optimistic”.
The right-wing populist politician, who headed four governments with interruptions from 1994 to 2011, was admitted to the Milan clinic about a week ago. At first there was talk of cardiovascular and respiratory problems.
