Silvio Berlusconi, almost a month after the day of hospitalization, could be discharged in the next few hours or days.

Admitted to the San Raffaele in Milan since last April 5 to treat a lung infection that arose in the context of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia , the former prime minister spent the first 12 days on the -1 floor of sector Q, in intensive care.

Then on 16 April, "the clinical state and the response to the treatments" allowed the transfer to an ordinary hospitalization ward, within the same pavilion, where the therapies and the monitoring of the functional parameters continued.

According to the latest medical bulletin, released last Wednesday by professors Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri, Berlusconi's conditions are said to be continuously improving, with a "stable clinical picture" and "characterized by an excellent and convincing recovery".

The next note from the hospital on his health is expected today and this time it could be decisive.

The president of FI is expected at the party convention scheduled for 5 and 6 May: his name has already been included in the closing program of the event in recent days. It is not yet clear, however, how he will deliver the final speech, whether via a recorded audio message or via a phone call.

(Unioneonline/D)