Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi went to
a hospital in Monaco Thursday for a heart problem which entailed
his being taken there instead of returning to Italy for
treatment, his doctor said.
"I ordered the hospitalisation in Monaco because I did not think
it prudent to face transport back to Italy," said Dr Alberto
Zangrillo, a top doctor at Milan's premier San Raffaele
hospital.
Zangrillo said the issue, with the 84-year-old media mogul, who
had an aortic valve replaced in 2016, was "an arrhythmical
cardiac problem".
"On Monday," Zangrillo told ANSA, "I urgently went to where the
premier is temporarily living, in southern France, due to a
worsening (in his condition)".
The three-time former premier checked into the Principality's
premier heart clinic.
The leader of the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party will
return home in a few days, his entourage said earlier, saying
that he was having "routine tests".
Berlusconi had been staying at Valbonne near Nice where he also
spent most of the COVID lockdown.
Berlusconi had a bout of the virus in September which he
described as "the most dangerous and frightening experience" of
his life.
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