Defence Minister Guido Crosetto will
be discharged form a Rome hospital this weekend after being
admitted Tuesday night with a second and more painful bout of
pericarditis after an initial one in February, sources said
Wednesday.
Crosetto, 60, a bigwig in Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing
Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, will be kept in as a precaution
for a couple more days and will be let out at the ed of the
week, the defence ministry said.
It said his condition was "in continual improvement".
Crosetto was taken to Rome's San Carlo di Nancy hospital after
feeling unwell during a meeting of the Supreme Defence Council
at the presidential palace.
He was reported to have been suffering chest pains.
Crosetto was treated for a case of pericarditis at the same
hospital in February.
Pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium, the fibrous
sac surrounding the heart.
Doctors have ruled out heart issues.
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