Pope Francis is no longer in an immediate risk of death due to pneumonia that has taken him to the hospital for almost a month.
In a late update, the doctors said that the 88-year-old Pope was stable and has consolidated in the past few days how blood tests and positive reactions to drug treatments were determined.
The Vatican said that the doctors had lifted their previous “guarded” forecast, which means that due to the original respiratory infection with which he arrived on February 14, it was no longer in direct danger.
“However, in view of the complexity of the clinical image and the important infectious image that was presented during the recording, the drug drug therapy in a hospital must be continued for further days,” said the Vatican.
In a sign of his improved health, Francis followed the weekly retreat of the Vatican spiritual retreat on Monday and afternoon sessions on the video conference.
As he did on Sunday, Francis took the retreat from the Rome Hospital in which he is treated. He was able to see and hear the Rev. Roberto Pasolini, the preacher of the papal budget, but the priests, bishops and cardinals gathered to retreat in the auditorium of the Vatican could not see or hear him.
This week Pasolini delivers a series of meditations about “The Hope of Eternal Life”, a topic that was included in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome long before Francis was recorded in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on February 14.
The retreat – an annual meeting that starts the ceremonial Lent of the Catholic Church for Easter – continues over the week. The Vatican said that Francis would take part in the spiritual community with the rest of the hierarchy from a distance.
Francis also resumed his physical and respiratory therapy in the Gemelli hospital and rested in between and prayed in between. Francis used a nose tube for additional oxygen to breathe it during the day, and a non-invasive mechanical ventilation mask at night, the therapy that he continued on Monday.
Pope Francis, who has a chronic lung disease and had removed part of a lung as a young man, had a bad case of bronchitis when he was hospitalized last month. The infection developed into a complex respiratory infection and a double pneumonia, which has raised it for the longest time of his 12-year pope and the future.
Pope Francis thanked the wells with all my heart in his first audio message since his hospital launch almost three weeks ago. The short news that Francis from the Gemelli Hospital from Rome used to be recorded in the day was played during a nightly prayer god for the 88-year-old Pope on St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
Speculation about the Pope’s health and talk about complics
Francis still kept in mind. The Vatican said that he was informed about the floods in his Heimatargentinia and expressed his proximity to the affected population. In addition, a Vatican Cardinal near Francis spoke on Monday to refute some negative media reports that were spread in his absence.
The Vatican Development Office published a letter that the Canadian cardinal Michael Czerny wrote to one of the close friends of Francis, the activist of Juan Graboi’s Argentine social justice. Grabois had traveled to Rome to pray in the Gemelli Hospital for Francis, and some Italian media reported last month that he had tried to go to the 10th floor suite of Francis ’10. To get the floor, an assertion he denied.
In the letter dated March 6, Czerny Grabois said that Francis “knew about her presence in Rome and her daily vigils of prayer and spiritual solidarity at Gemelli Polyclinic, and I am sure that this gave him a real consolation and support.”
“I also know that they agree with the unfounded versions that were spread in some media about supposedly inappropriate behavior in the hospital,” wrote Czerny.
The Vatican is always full of rumors, but has exaggerated with speculation about Francis’ health and conversations about complics, although Francis is very lively and responsible. The fact that Czerny thought it was necessary to defend one from Francis’ friends indicated that the rumor and maneuvering in Francis had exceeded a line.
On Thursday, the Vatican will hand in for the 12th anniversary of the election of Francis, the first with the Pope out of sight, but still responsible. Francis was elected for the 266th Pope, the first Jesuit pope and on March 13, 2013 from Latin America, after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
