Former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan due to leukemia from which he suffered. for a long time, the Italian media report today.

Berlusconi, 86, was hospitalized last Friday. undergo a series of “programmed” leukemia tests, and with his death, a key figure in Italian political life disappears.

At the moment there is no official confirmation, but according to the same sources, death came this morning shortly thereafter, her five children and her brother Paolo were admitted to the hospital.

It raised all the concerns about his state of health, It got worse last night.

The eldest daughter of Paolo and Berlkusconi Marina arrived first. around 9:30 a.m. to the medical center, where they joined his partner Marta Fascina, who is 53 years younger than him and always stayed by his side, and later his other children, Eleanor, Barbara, Pier Silvio and Luigi.

Last Friday, his doctors assured that Berlusconi had been admitted to the San Raffaele hospital for undergo “routine checks on his known hematological pathology” and that his confession did not answer “any critical aspect or anxiety”.

Thus, Berlusconi returned to the hospital three weeks after discharge after spending 44 days in the hospital with pneumonia complicated by leukemia, which his medical team says he suffered from for a long time.

At that time, he was always accompanied by his girlfriend, Deputy Marta Fashina, and received visits from his closest collaborators, from his associates such as Georgia Meloni, and his family, such as his five children, as well as numerous friends.

From the hospital, the tycoon even starred in two videos: one urging Italians to vote in local elections, and the other another to interfere in the congress of his party, in which he claimed to be “ready” to get back into action.

The medical part of his trusted doctor Alberto Zangrillo showed that Berlusconi was being treated for a “lung infection”. caused by “a chronic hematological disorder he has been a carrier for a long time: chronic myelomonocytic leukemia”.

Chronic myeloid leukemia is a form of blood cancer that can appear, especially in people over 60 The doctors then clarified that he was undergoing “specialized cytoreductive treatment” and chemotherapy.

Over the years, Berlusconi was hospitalized several times.: one of them was implanted with a pacemaker, while he was also hospitalized with covid-19 and in one of the last, in January 2022, he was hospitalized with a urinary infection.

(EFE)