Silvio Berlusconi, “even facing a serious pathology in a truly difficult situation, is responding well to treatment”. This is the image offered by his personal physician, Alberto Zangrillo, head of the intensive care unit at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where Cavaliere has been hospitalized since last Wednesday for a lung infection in the context of chronic myelocytic leukemia. “I’m serene and a little confident, because things are going according to the expected standards. We are doing our best”, clarified Zangrillo. And again: “We have a very precise therapeutic strategy, according to which leaps, and therefore pessimism and optimism, do not meet the criteria of objectivity that a serious doctor is called”. The professor, therefore, criticizes those who “allow themselves to make hypotheses, predictions and judgments about whether or not Berlusconi will be able to continue working and doing politics. Wouldn’t that be serious. The timing? Ask someone else.”
In San Raffaele, on the fourth day of the Cavaliere’s hospitalization, his children Luigi (“He’s better, thank you”, his only words), Pier Silvio and Marina, his brother Paolo and the friend and president of the MFE, Fedele confalonieri. But among the first to arrive in the morning was the loyal Gianni Letta. Who, before leaving the health unit after about an hour and a half of visit, preaches optimism: “We talked and I found him better than I thought. We can wish him Easter wishes because the path of rebirth, if not resurrection , is traversed”. And on his return to the field of the blue leader, the former undersecretary of the Presidency of the Council assures: “You certainly know him”.
For his part, the national coordinator of Forza Italia and deputy prime minister, Antonio Tajani, reports that “he listened to the family, the doctors, Marta Fascina. Berlusconi says he feels fine. He is a lion. Everyone is convinced that he’ll be back soon. We’re working towards a big Forza Italia event in Milan, on May 5th and 6th, and that could be the date of his return to the public.” And not only that. The leader of the blue group in the Chamber, Paolo Barelli , points out that Berlusconi “responds to therapy, this is very important and is a good omen. Obviously, he is a person, a politician, a businessman who has not spared himself in life, he is a boy of a certain age. Therefore, prudence is obvious.” And Licia Ronzulli, president of the blue senators, says: “My only thought is the health of President Berlusconi. respectful silence. I welcome any positive news with hope. And I will do so from now on, until the president leaves the hospital.” But then the leader of the Italian group in the Senate blurts out in reference to an alleged ‘diaspora’ in relation to the League: “I have read imaginative backstories, literally made up in the newspapers about non-existent scenarios that concern me but that do not belong to me and do not correspond nothing to reality”.
Source: IL Tempo
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