The former head of the Italian government Silvio Berlusconi, 86, was hospitalized in intensive care for a heart problem, a source close to the tycoon told AFP on Wednesday.
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Silvio Berlusconi is in a cardiac surgery unit at San Raffaele hospital in Milan (north), added this source, confirming information from Italian media.
According to the Ansa press agency, he was hospitalized in the morning “for cardiovascular problems” and his condition is “currently stable”.
Silvio Berlusconi, whose Forza Italia party is part of the coalition supporting the government of Giorgia Meloni, has recently increased hospital stays, the last officially last week for check-ups.
In April 2021, he had been hospitalized for more than three weeks for “sequelae of COVID-19” which he had contracted in September 2020.
Silvio Berlusconi underwent major open-heart surgery in 2016, then surgery for bowel obstruction in the spring of 2019.
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