Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi is
up and walking after his heart operation nine days ago.
A smiling Berlusconi took a male nurse's arm and was
helped from his ward to the next at Milan's San Raffaele
Hospital, where he chatted and quipped with fellow patients,
sources said.
The three-time premier and media mogul is expected to be in
the San Raffaele for another 10 days or so, and back in action
at the helm of his centre-right Forza Italia party after the
August break.
He had the June 14 operation on a life-threatening heart
condition, a faulty aortic valve which was replaced with an
artificial one.
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