“The day passed well, with a stable evolution. The Pope Francisco has dined pizza, together with those who assist him in these days of hospitalization: doctors, nurses, assistants and Gendarmerie personnel. This morning, after breakfast, he read some newspapers and went back to work, ”the director of the Holy See Press Office reported today, Matteo Bruni.
That was the last official report from the communication team of the Supreme Pontiff about his evolution, after presenting a respiratory infection that forced him to be admitted to the hospital. Gemelli from Rome on Wednesday, March 29. He Vatican indicated that the Pope received antibiotic treatments on the tenth floor of the sanatorium, with a “clear improvement” of the infectious bronchitis picture diagnosed by his medical team.
He Pope Francisco He will return to the Vatican on Saturday, April 1, after having registered a satisfactory evolution. “The return of his Holiness to Santa Marta is scheduled for tomorrow, after the results of the latest tests carried out this day,” added the spokesperson. Matteo Bruni.
The Pope, who worked from the medical center, keeps his meetings scheduled for Monday, April 3. In any case, his participation in the Holy Week celebrations is still uncertain, declared the dissemination team, based on the diagnoses presented by the medical specialists.
In this regard, His Holiness “suffers from chronic health problems”, which is why he currently uses a wheelchair due to knee pain. Right now, Jorge bergoglio is hospitalized in the private apartment reserved for the pontiffs, where John Paul II and Benedict XVI they were interned on several occasions during their papacies.
The 86-year-old Pope had to cancel or reduce his activities vseveral times last year due to leg pain and in an interview in July 2022 he acknowledged that he needed to slow down, although he has assured on several occasions that he does not want to operate. In July 2021, he underwent colon surgery after suffering from a type of diverticulitis, an inflammation of the bags that develop in the lining of the intestine. At that time, he remained hospitalized for 10 days after the operation.
When he was only 21 years old, the young bergoglio had to undergo surgery in which they removed the upper lobe of the right lung. He described this experience as his first “with the limit, with the pain and the loneliness”. For this reason, the respiratory control of the religious is exhaustive.
On Twitter, the pontiff said on Thursday that he was “moved by the many messages received” and expressed “his gratitude for the closeness and prayer.” Among the messages of the last hours, were several leaders and celebrities, including the one from the US president Joe Bidenwho professes the Catholic religion, and that of his wife Jill Biden.
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