Italy: former head of government Silvio Berlusconi briefly hospitalized for examinations – franceinfo

The former head of the Italian government Silvio Berlusconi, 84 years old and who has increased hospital stays since the beginning of the year, was briefly hospitalized on Friday August 27, announced a spokesperson for the Cavaliere. He went out in the afternoon, supplemented the same source.

“Hospitalization was necessary to perform a thorough clinical evaluation”, he said, confirming the information given by several Italian media, including La Repubblica* and the Rai*, according to which he had been at the prestigious San Raffaele hospital in Milan since Thursday.

This is the fourth hospital stay for the current MEP in less than a year. He was treated in May due to complications from his coronavirus infection last year. In January, he spent several days at the Monaco Cardiothoracic Center for problems with cardiac arrhythmias, and in September 2020, he had been hospitalized due to a lung infection due to Covid-19.

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