“All quiet, all regular.” So from the Quirinale they reassure the state of health of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, discharged today, Thursday 17 April, from the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome, where on Tuesday evening he had undergone a cardiological intervention called “routine”. The doctors implanted a pacemaker to regularize heartbeats, a prophylaxis intervention carried out under local anesthesia, around 8 pm on the same day.
Nothing sudden, explain official sources: the intervention was planned and not linked to emergencies. The head of the state spent the night in the hospital “in a quiet way”, is “asymptomatic” and in stable clinical conditions. The hospitalization ended in less than 48 hours. Now he will be followed by his personal doctor, Salvo Madonia, during the short period of convalescence.
The medical team of the Holy Spirit, historical health garrison in the heart of the capital, has been a point of reference for the Quirinale for years. The same primary Roberto Ricci, who coordinated the intervention in Mattarella, in 2018 diagnosed the serious aortic dissemination to Giorgio Napolitano, then an emergency worked. The tradition of relying on Italian public health remains solid: in 1987, Sandro Pertini was also hospitalized in the Policlinico Umberto I, where a pacemaker was implanted.
The president’s convalescence will not affect the institutional agenda. No cancellation of the commitments scheduled for April. After Easter, Mattarella will resume the activities with the usual sobriety and a sense of duty: on April 23 he will receive the fighting and weapon associations at the Quirinale; Two days later he will be in Genoa to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation. Appointments to which he cares a lot, so much so as to decide early hospitalization to ensure his presence.
