Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has
been in the intensive care unit of Milan's San Raffaele since
Wednesday, is already asking to go home, medical sources said on
Saturday.
The media billionaire and Forza Italia (FI) leader is being
treated for a lung infection and chronic leukemia.
The 86-year-old's condition is stable and he still has a lung
infection, the medical sources said on Saturday.
The ex-premier's close aide Gianni Letta said Saturday that
Berlusconi was better than he expected after visiting him.
"I visited him in intensive care," Letta told reporters.
"We spoke and I found him better than I though I would.
"We can wish him a Happy Easter because the road of the rebirth,
if not the resurrection, has been taken".
Paolo Barelli, the FI leader in the Lower House, told La7
television on Saturday that the ex-premier's third night in
intensive care "passed quietly".
"Berlusconi is responding to the therapies, this is very
important and gives us hope," he added.
On Friday Berlusconi told Augusto Minzolini, editor of the
former Berlusconi family newspaper Il Giornale, via telephone
that "it's tough", but that he would "make it this time too".
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