Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized for a pneumonia for more than three weeks, is showing signs of improvement but is still “too soon”To return home, a Vatican source said Monday.
The spiritual leader of the Catholics in the world, 88, entered the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on February 14 where he has suffered several respiratory crises, the last seven days ago.
Since then, doctors describe their situation as “stable“And last weekend they assured that there is one”Mild improvement“Within a clinical picture that remains”complex”
However, “It’s too soon to talk about his return to Santa Marta”, The residence where he lives, a source from the Vatican said on Monday.
Francisco passed “A quiet night”In his suite on the tenth floor of the Gemelli Hospital and the day will spend physical and respiratory therapy, according to the official Vatican statement.
As in previous mornings, on Monday they also changed the oxygen mask that uses every night for a nasal high flow cannula, a lighter support.
During his hospital stay, the Pope has been working intermittently and following the news whenever possible, including floods that have affected his native country, Argentina.
In this sense “The Pope is informed of floods in Argentina and is clearly close to people’s suffering in Bahía Blanca, is obviously close to thought, with prayer”Said the Vatican press office.
The storm that hit on Friday that Argentine city has left at least 16 dead, a hundred missing and 900 evacuated.
The Pope has suffered several health problems in recent years, including a colon operation in 2021 and another to treat him a hernia in 2023. But this is his longest and longer stay in the hospital since his papacy began, in 2013.
On other occasions Francisco went to the Balcony of the Gemelli Hospital for the Sunday Prayer of the Dominical Angelus but this time he has been writing it for four weeks instead of pronouncing it from the Apostolic Palace, located in the Plaza de San Pedro.
On Sunday at noon, the pontiff thank you in a message to medical staff.
“Brothers and sisters, in my prolonged hospitalization, I also experience the care in service and tenderness in care, especially by doctors and health operators, to whom I thank you from the heart“, wrote.
The Pope has not been seen in person since he was admitted to the Gemelli Hospital.
His only direct message was an audio published on Thursday in Spanish in which, in a tired voice and broken breathing, he thanked the sentences for his speedy recovery.
Doctors have not spoken about how long the income will last or on the time that the convalescence of Jorge Bergoglio could take.
“The hope that the Pope will recover is always present in us”Matteo Peafrini, a civil protection volunteer from the Lombardy region that participated in a massive mass in the Vatican told AFP on Sunday.
Source: Gestion
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