ROME: Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed on Friday (Apr 7) to survive another stint in hospital, as the 86-year-old media mogul showed signs of improvement following treatment for leukaemia and a lung infection. The billionaire, a larger-than-life figure who has dominated Italian public
ROME: Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed on Friday to survive another stint in hospital, as the 86-year-old media mogul showed signs of improvement following treatment for leukaemia and a lung infection.
"I'm quite worried but at the same time optimistic because I am sure he will survive, as he always did, all the other times," said Marco Macri, 31, a public school employee.Italy's Berlusconi acquitted in Bunga Bunga bribe caseThe declining health of Berlusconi, a three-time prime minister, has meant he has been in and out of the hospital in recent years. His latest admission to San Raffaele Hospital came just a week after being discharged after a four-day stay.
The cancer was in a"persistent chronic phase" but not"acute", they said. Acute leukaemia is more severe and can worsen more quickly.
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