By Enyichukwu Enemanna
Italian ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, was in intensive care on Wednesday for heart problems.
A dominant player in his nation’s politics for decades, the 86-year-old media mogul and senator has been in and out of the hospital in recent years.
A member of his entourage told AFP that the former leader is in Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital,
Italian news agency Ansa said he was admitted early Wednesday and that his current condition was “stable”.
Berlusconi, the billionaire leader of the right-wing Forza Italia party, spent four days last month at the same hospital for what Italian news reports called heart issues, before being discharged on March 30.
“I have already started working again… ready and determined to commit myself, as I have always done, to the country I love”, he said in a message posted on social networks on Friday.
He then posted a photo of himself on Sunday grinning in front of a vast lawn of tulips in his villa in Arcore, in northern Italy.
After dominating Italian politics for two decades, the “Cavaliere” as he is widely known in Italy, now appears visibly diminished on the rare occasions he is seen in public.
Berlusconi was in the hospital for 11 days for Covid-related pneumonia in September 2020, after contracting the virus while on holiday in Sardinia, describing it as “perhaps the most difficult ordeal of my life.”
