Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized in Milan at San Raffaele for investigations after he tested positive for Covid.
President Berlusconi, after the appearance of some symptoms, was hospitalized at the San Raffale hospital in Milan as a precaution.
The leader of Forza Italia was diagnosed with early bilateral pneumonia.
According to what is learned from health sources, this would be the diagnosis that emerged from the scan to which the Knight was subjected and which led to his precautionary hospitalization.
Zangrillo, for Berlusconi mild pulmonary involvement
- The swab to which Silvio Berlusconi was subjected on September 2 "was scheduled. We detected a positivity in a subject that I defined asymptomatic. In a few hours, yesterday, in a situation of absolute tranquility, I decided to pay a visit and during this visit I found a mild pulmonary involvement ".
This was declared by the San Raffaele head physician and premier Alberto Zangrillo's doctor in the press section on Berlusconi's conditions.
The hospitalization of Silvio Berlusconi was deemed necessary because he is at risk for his age and previous pathologies, but we are in hospital with a calm and comforting clinical situation "added Zangrillo." The hospitalization regime is normal.
It is in a room that meets the requirements of regional laws regarding the protection of third parties and the patient.
The patient is not intubated, he breathes spontaneously "said the head of the intensive care unit of the San Raffaele hospital in the press point on Silvio Berlusconi." I am optimistic for the next few days ", he adds.
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I am convinced that it was a precautionary hospitalization and that there will be a positive evolution
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This is what is claimed by Professor Luca Richeldi pulmonologist, director of the pneumology department of the Gemelli Polyclinic and member of the Scientific Technical Committee of the Ministry of Health regarding Berlusconi's hospitalization.
The hospitalization took place around midnight yesterday.
In home isolation in Arcore since Wednesday after testing positive for Covid, yesterday in the late afternoon he spoke by telephone at a party conference in Genoa explaining that he was "quite well", that he no longer had fever and pain.
A few hours later, however, hospitalization at San Raffaele was decided.
The former premier is in an isolated room in sector D.
"There will be a medical bulletin at 16, before the bulletin better all the news that goes around must be considered a bit rash. They are doing all the necessary checks, at 16 Professor Zangrillo in agreement with the San Raffaele hospital will issue a press release, a medical bulletin with all the checks. Everything we say before would be unreliable and unreliable ", said the vice president of Forza Italia Antonio Tajani, interviewed on the sidelines of a press conference in Genoa on Berlusconi's health conditions.
"He is hospitalized there, for checks, to prevent anything. We are in contact. But nobody knows anything. It is the doctors who have to make all the necessary assessments", he added.
From the League to the Democratic Party, many wishes for a speedy recovery to the former premier.
"We express our closeness to President Silvio Berlusconi with the wish to recover as soon as possible. We all know him as an indomitable fighter".
Thus the group leaders of the Lega Massimiliano Romeo and Riccardo Molinari on behalf of all parliamentarians.
"Wishes to recover quickly and well", wrote Emanuele Fiano, of the Presidency of the Pd Group in the Chamber, in a post on Facebook.
"Proximity to Silvio Berlusconi. Over the years he has accustomed us to his temper as a tenacious fighter and we wish him a full and rapid recovery. Come on!", Declared the group leaders of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber and the Senate, Francesco Lollobrigida and Luca Ciriani.
"I am sure that the Knight is a bad skin and therefore he is not running any risk. I heard him the day before late in the evening, as soon as the news spread, and he was in good shape, says Giovanni Toti.
