Rome – Pope Francis had a week to stay on Friday in his hospital, the 88-year-old Pontiff continued to go down to eating breakfast Pneumonia fight And a complex respiratory infection, the Vatican said.
The Vatican reported at the end of Thursday “Small improvement” In his general clinical situation, he worked well with his heart. However, it will take some time to understand whether different drug therapies are working, and doctors say whatever pneumonia recovery can last until two weeks.
According to Friday of online newsletter, “night has gone well, this morning the Pope Francis got up and breakfast.”
Francis approved the Gemelli hospital in Rome on February 14 The case of bronchitis worsenedThe foam; Didctors then diagnosed A complex respiratory infectionBacteria, viruses and other organisms and other pneumonia on the twin of the twigs created in two lungs. Prescribed “absolute rest”.
Thursday, some of Francisco cardinals began to respond to the obvious question: Francis or not may resign If it is not ill and unable to move forward. Francis said he would consider, Pope Benedict XVI “after opening the door” with retirement.
“Everything is possible,” Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Marseille, French archbishop.
Gianfranco Ravasi asked another cardinal that Francis could decide to continue in steps Pope Benedict XVI And if you get down to us very sick. Benedict became 600-year-old Pope’s First Pope When he concluded in 2013, he had no physical strength, to carry out the color of the circumstation.
“It’s not definitely (Francis) if he hadn’t been in a state of direct (people) relationships … I think he put it in danger,” I think Ravas mentioned “RTL 102.5 to tell the radio.
Francis confirmed that the Pontiff had been selected and wrote a letter of resignation shortly, which prevented the medical problems from carrying out his duties. There is no provision in the Canon law, if the Pope is disabled.
But there is no indication that Francis ignores any setting or even. During the hospital stay, he has continued to work, including making bishop appointments. Also, after his death of Benedict, Francis clearly left the work of the Pope to life.
Francis had an acute case of pneumonia in 2023 and in winter respiratory infections.
Doctors say pneumonia in so fragile, the elderly patients do especially to go to complications From its lungs the fluid has been difficult to expel effectively. While the heart is strong, Francis is not particularly healthy 88 years old. It has overweight, not physically active, uses the wheelchair due to bad knees, removed as a young lung, and has been a sick person in the past.
Francis has had two more time Hospital stays Its almost 12 years of pontixal. He spent 10 days at Gemelli in 2021 by 33 centimeters (13 inches) in his colon. In 2023, they accepted in nine days to remove the tissues of the bowel scars and resolve the abdominal hernia.
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