Italy's Berlusconi in hospital for scheduled checks related to leukemia - hospital bulletin

Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalised in Milan for scheduled medical checks related to his leukemia, a hospital bulletin said on Friday.

"Silvio Berlusconi is currently at the San Raffaele Hospital to undergo scheduled tests in connection with his known hematological pathology," the San Raffaele hospital bulletin said.

"The anticipation, to this day, of these checks responds to clinical criteria of normal practice in medicine and is not related to any criticality or alarm," it added.