Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in intensive care for a heart problem

Silvio Berlusconi’s state of health has suddenly deteriorated. The 86-year-old former head of the Italian government is hospitalized in intensive care for a heart problem, a source close to the tycoon told AFP on Wednesday April 5. 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 news agency, he was hospitalized in the morning “for cardiovascular problems” and his condition would be “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 last week, officially for check-ups. In April 2021, he had been hospitalized for more than three weeks for “Covid-19 sequelae” which he had contracted in September 2020. Silvio Berlusconi underwent major open-heart surgery in 2016, then an operation for an intestinal obstruction in the spring of 2019.