The Minister of Defense was taken yesterday by ambulance to San Carlo di Nancy, in Rome, after falling ill during the Supreme Defense Council. It would have been a new episode of pericarditis but today his condition is “clearly improving”
Minister Crosetto’s health conditions are “clearly improving”. The head of the Defense Ministry was hospitalized yesterday after feeling unwell during the Supreme Defense Council. Following an initial medical consultation on site, the minister was transported by ambulance to the San Carlo di Nancy hospital to undergo tests. As communicated by the Roman hospital, Crosetto spent a peaceful night. “The clinical investigations – the Ministry of Defense announced – confirmed that it was a new episode of pericarditis which presented itself in a much more painful form than the previous episode and, as then, without cardiac implications”.
Today’s and tomorrow’s commitments have been cancelled
During the night, Minister Crosetto was always monitored at the hospital’s coronary unit. “After the acute phase of pain has passed, pericarditis is treated like a normal infection, with anti-inflammatory therapy”, explained the head of Cardiac Surgery at San Carlo di Nancy, Giuseppe Speziale. Crosetto canceled today and tomorrow’s commitments but in the morning he had a meeting with his closest collaborators for the daily briefing on the evolution of the security framework.
Crosetto: “Thank you for your closeness and affection”
“I would like to thank all the people, friends, known or unknown, who in these last hours have sent me messages of friendship, closeness and affection,” he said the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto.
