Emma Bonino emergency hospitalized in Rome for respiratory problems

Emma Bonino was again urgently hospitalized at the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome. The doctors - according to what we learn - decided to keep her in hospital overnight so they could monitor her parameters. Her condition is described as "serious" but she is lucid and conscious. According to what we learn, she was rescued in her home in the center of the capital in the afternoon and transported by ambulance under code red due to an aggravation of her respiratory problems. «Checks and an evaluation of the parameters are underway following a worsening of respiratory function. She remains alert and lucid", reported the attending doctor Claudio Santini in the evening, who is in constant contact with the doctors of the Santo Spirito. He appears to be responding positively to the initial treatment decided by the doctors at the Roman hospital.

The previous hospitalization

The historic radical leader, who is now 78 years old, had been admitted to the same hospital, in intensive care, as early as November 2025. She was subsequently transferred to the Stroke Unit of San Filippo Neri and discharged after about a week. The doctors had ruled out a recurrence of the lung cancer that had been diagnosed in 2015, attributing the illness to a metabolic problem. Even in this case, according to initial information, it is an aggravation of his respiratory failure problems. Emma Bonino's medical history was in fact marked by a lung tumor, more precisely a microcytoma, which in 2015 affected her left lung, forcing her to undergo long years of chemotherapy. Microcytoma is one of the most aggressive forms of lung cancer. After eight years of therapy, she herself announced that she had successfully completed the treatments without ever giving up her beloved political activity.

The fights for civil rights

Emma Bonino was a historic activist of the Radical party since its origins and, more recently one of the founders of +Europa. But above all she was one of the most important figures of liberal radicalism of the republican age and of Italian feminism. His life is inextricably linked to the fight for human and civil rights. Since the 1970s, as a militant and then a radical leader, he has challenged the status quo by fighting for the self-determination of individuals. Her commitment begins with the great civil battles in Italy: she was at the forefront of the campaign for the introduction of divorce and, above all, for the legalization of abortion, even going so far as to denounce herself for having performed clandestine abortions to encourage debate.

From humanitarian diplomacy to international justice

But not only civil rights in Emma's commitment: Bonino was also a protagonist on the international scene, in humanitarian diplomacy and international justice. In fact, he speaks seven languages, including Arabic. He earned a degree in Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures (modern) from Bocconi University in Milan. A passion that has pushed his gaze into the most difficult crisis theaters on the planet, bringing the radical vision of a universal and barrier-free right to the world. When she was appointed European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid in 1994, she transformed a hitherto bureaucratic office into a machine for rapid and flexible intervention. He managed the complex devastating crisis of the Great Lakes in Africa after the genocide in Rwanda, then moving on to deal with fratricidal conflicts in the Balkans where he managed to impose humanitarian aid as the absolute priority of the community geopolitical agenda. Long a member of Parliament, in addition to becoming European Commissioner between 1994 and 1999, he became Italy's Minister of International Trade and European Policies in the Prodi II government. Finally Foreign Minister in Enrico Letta's government.