A wave from behind the tinted window of a black sedan. Silvio Berlusconi, 86, greeted the media present this Friday when he left San Raffaele hospital in Milan. The former head of the Italian government was admitted there six weeks ago for leukemia and a lung infection.
“Il Cavaliere” addressed his supporters for the first time in early May, in a video message, from his hospital room. Elegantly dressed, seated behind a desk with the party banner and the Italian flag behind him, he thanked his supporters for their support, “which more than anything helped me overcome a very dangerous pneumonia”.
Many visits to the hospital
Among the richest men of the peninsula with a fortune estimated by Forbes at 6.4 billion euros, Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalized several times in recent years. In January 2022, he was admitted to San Raffaele, again, to treat a urinary tract infection. The previous April, he had also been hospitalized for more than three weeks for “Covid-19 sequelae” which he had contracted in September 2020.
He had also undergone major open-heart surgery in 2016, then an operation to treat an intestinal obstruction in the spring of 2019. In 1997, he had been operated on for a malignant tumor in the prostate.
