possible resignation from Sunday onwards – Corriere.it

Silvio Berlusconi will participate in the Forza Italia convention – scheduled in Milan on May 5 and 6 – in all probability from the San Raffaele, where he has been hospitalized since last April 5. The idea is that of his message to those present, the modalities of which are still to be defined. The return home, say the well-informed, is not expected for four to five days. For now we are at 29 days of hospitalization and the desire to never give up of the former prime minister is once again astonishing: the leader of Forza Italia, as underlined a few days ago by his daughter Navy, «demonstrates exemplary courage and tenacity every day». “Constant monitoring of functional parameters”, the ordinance phrase of the first medical bulletins, with the passing of the days gives way to “a convincing recovery of organ functions”. This is the reason why on 16 April Berlusconi could be transferred from intensive care at minus 1 of pavilion Q to the ordinary hospitalization ward and why now it is not risky for those closest to him to pronounce the word “resignation” .

But the situation remains delicate and the prudence of doctors is mandatory. “The responses to the therapies – said the sixth medical bulletin of April 26 – have made a stable clinical picture possible”. The pneumonia now seems under control, the skyrocketing white blood cell values ​​have normalized. Same with kidney failure. Impossible to forget, however, that the leader of Forza Italia has to deal with leukemia: if his most serious complications have returned, and the blood pathology is in a chronic form, attention in any case can only remain high. Yesterday a summit in the hospital with almost all the president’s children. And the situation was also explained to Marta Fascina, who never left the San Raffaele during this month of hospitalisation. There are more exams scheduled, and a new bulletin expected this morning. Evaluations are underway.

Treatments continue with the trusted doctor working side by side Alberto Zangrillo, at the head of the intensive care and intensive care of San Raffaele, and the onco-haematologist Fabio Ciceri. Over the past few weeks, Berlusconi has undergone chemotherapy and other therapies necessary to fight the lung infection, starting with antibiotics. The physique, even if tested like that of anyone at 86 with their immune defenses put to the test, is reacting. There is no shortage of breathing exercises to regain lung function, nor the steps taken now without a walker. Nonetheless no one thinks or wants to hasten the leader’s resignation, even if rumors keep chasing each other that they give them within 24-48 hours. Not so, assure the well-informed. Of course, homecoming is closer. But it still takes a little patience. In the previous armored convalescences of the former prime minister at Villa San Martino in Arcore, the doctors had long ago foreseen the presence of a hospital bed in a room equipped at best for continuing the therapies. It’s hard to think that this time too it won’t be like this. In any case, Berlusconi he still has to spend a few days at the San Raffaele. Where will the convention follow from?