The 88 -year -old Pope Francis read the newspapers and breakfast on Sunday after a second night, who slept well in the hospital, where he was treated because of an infection of the airways, said the Vatican.
The Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said that he would be expected to deliver another update later a day. He found that significantly new detailed medical information may not be given in view of a Sunday.
The Argentine Pope, a well-known workaholic that is exhausting despite his many symptoms, was accepted into the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Friday after a week-long bronchitis deteriorated. It was his fourth hospital stay since his election in 2013 and asked questions about his increasingly precarious health.
The doctors confirmed an infection of the respiratory tract and prescribed “absolute calm” alongside non -specified drug therapies. Francis skipped his traditional Sunday blessing and rejected it even to get to his hospital window to wave a small amount underneath that had gathered in the hope.
The Pontifex Social Media account, which was not written by the Pope itself, thanked the people for their prayers on Sunday.
“Thanks for the affection, prayer and closeness with which you will accompany me these days,” was the mail.
History of lung diseases
Francis had removed part of a lung after a lung infection as a young man and is susceptible to respiratory infections. In 2023 he spent three days in Gemelli to be treated for what he later revealed, an acute case of pneumonia.
Despite his bronchitis diagnosis on February 6th, Francis had recently maintained a frenetic pace and grabbed his days with the private and public audience, while taking over the additional obligations of the Catholic Church through her holy year.
The Vatican canceled its events at least until Monday. Instead, a trade fair of the Holy Year, which he was to lead to visiting artists, was celebrated on Sunday by the Vatican Minister.
The Vatican has not indicated what type of respiratory infection of the Pope. Sometimes bronchitis can lead to pneumonia, a deeper and far more serious infection of the lung air bags.
The treatment varies according to severity, but can include oxygen from a nose tube or a mask, intravenous liquids – and the treatment of the underlying cause of the infection.
