Silvio Berlusconi's doctor Alberto
Zangrillo said Saturday that the ex-premier was responding well
to treatment after being admitted to the intensive care unit of
Milan's San Raffaele on Wednesday.
The media billionaire and Forza Italia (FI) leader is being
treated for a lung infection and chronic leukemia.
"I am serene because we are doing our best," said Zangrillo,
who, in addition to being Berlusconi's personal doctor, is also
the head of the intensive care unit he is in.
"And I am serene because I have before me a patient who is a
great friend, which I can deny and so there is also my personal
involvement, but he is also a person who is used to always
giving the best possible response.
"So, even with a serious pathology and in a very difficult
situation, he is responding well to the treatment".
Berlusconi, 86, is already asking to go home, medical sources
said on Saturday, adding that his condition is stable and he
still has a lung infection.
The ex-premier's close aide Gianni Letta said Saturday that
Berlusconi was better than he expected after visiting him.
"I visited him in intensive care," Letta told reporters.
"We spoke and I found him better than I though I would.
"We can wish him a Happy Easter because the road of the
rebirth, if not the resurrection, has been taken".
Paolo Barelli, the FI leader in the Lower House, told La7
television on Saturday that the ex-premier's third night in
intensive care "passed quietly".
"Berlusconi is responding to the therapies, this is very
important and gives us hope," he added.
On Friday Berlusconi told Augusto Minzolini, editor of the
former Berlusconi family newspaper Il Giornale, via telephone
that "it's tough", but that he would "make it this time too".
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