Pope Francis is no longer in danger of death due to pneumonia, which has left him hospitalized for nearly a month, but they decided to leave him hospitalized for a few more days to receive treatment, doctors said Monday.
The 88-year-old pope remains stable and has been consolidated in recent days, depending on blood tests and positive responses to medications, the doctor said in an late update.
The Vatican said doctors have canceled their former “guard” prognosis, meaning they are sure they are no longer in imminent danger due to the original respiratory infection he arrived on February 14. But still be cautious.
“However, given the complexity of the clinical situation and the important infectious pictures presented at admission, it is necessary to continue medical treatment in the hospital for additional days,” the Vatican statement said.
To improve health, Francis passed the Vatican’s week-long mental retreat at his Monday morning and afternoon meeting.
As he did on Sunday, Francis participated in a remote retreat at the Roman hospital where he was receiving treatment. He could see and hear the Rev. Roberto Pasolini, a missionary of the Pope family, but the priests, bishops and cardinals gathered in the Vatican auditorium and could not see or hear him.
Pasolini will conduct a series of meditations on “Hope of Immortality,” a theme ahead of the Rome Yegelli Hospital, which was admitted to Francis on February 14 as a complex lung infection.
Retreat – the annual gathering that begins the solemn Lent season of the Catholic Church, leading to Easter – continues throughout the week. The Vatican has said that Francis will participate “in spiritual communication” with the rest of the hierarchy in the distance.
Francis also restored his physical and respiratory therapy at Jegley Hospital and rested and prayed in the middle. Francis has been using nasal tubes to replenish oxygen to help him breathe during the day and continues to use a non-invasive mechanical ventilation mask at night, a therapy he continued on Monday.
Pope Francis, who has had a chronic lung disease, had removed part of one lung at a young age, had a poor case of bronchitis when he was hospitalized last month. The infection developed into complex respiratory infections and double pneumonia, which allowed him to occupy the situation during the longest period of his 12-year pope phase and raised questions about the future.
Pope Francis thanked the blessing in his first audio message on Thursday for his blessing “from the bottom of my heart” since being hospitalized for double pneumonia about three weeks ago. Earlier in the day, a brief message Francis recorded from Gemelli Hospital in Rome was played in the night prayer service of the 88-year-old PONTIFF in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
Guess the Pope’s health and talk about the conclusion
Francis is still paying attention to things. The Vatican said he had been informed of the floods in his native Argentina and expressed his close relationship with the affected population. Additionally, on Monday, the Vatican Cardinal, close to Francis, refuted some negative media coverage circulated in his absence.
The Vatican Development Office has released a letter written by Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny to one of Francis’ close friends, Argentine social justice activist Juan Grabois. Grabois had travelled to Rome to pray for Francis at the Gemelli Hospital, and some Italian media reported last month that he had tried to force his entry into the 10th floor hospital suite in Francis, a claim he denied.
In a letter dated March 6, Czerny told Grabois that Francis “knows that your presence in Rome and your daily vigil of prayer and spiritual solidarity on Gemelli Polyclinic, I’m sure it gave him real comfort and support.”
“In addition, I know you, together with me, strongly deny the unfounded version of hospital misconduct circulated in some media, some media, about hospital misconduct,” Czerny wrote.
The Vatican is always full of rumors, but while Francis is very alive and responsible, speculation about Francis’ health and talk sessions have gone beyond that. The fact that Czerny believes it is necessary to defend a friend of Frances, suggests that rumors and actions of Frances’ absence have crossed a line.
On Thursday, the Vatican will mark the 12th anniversary of the Francis election, which the pope cannot see but is still in charge. Francis was elected the 266th Pope, the first Jesuit Pope, and was elected from Latin America on March 13, 2013, with Pope Benedict XVI resigning.
