Pope Francis suffered two new acute respiratory crises on Monday and was again put on the non-invasive mechanical ventilation in a further setback against his fight against pneumonia, said the Vatican.
Doctors extracted “plenty of” amounts of mucus from his lungs during two bronchoscopies, in which a tube with a camera is sent into the airways with a fool at the top.
The Vatican said the mucus was the body’s reaction to the original pneumonia infection and no new infection, since laboratory tests do not display new bacteria.
Francis stayed vigilant, oriented and worked together with medical staff. The forecast remained guarded. The doctors did not say whether he stayed in a stable state.
Doctors often use non-invasive ventilation to ward off intubation or the use of invasive mechanical ventilation. Francis was not intubated during this hospital stays. It is not clear whether he delivered guidelines across the limits of his care in advance when he refuses or loses consciousness.
The crises were a new setback in a more than two weeks of fight by the 88-year-old Pope, who had a chronic lung disease and removed part of a lung to overcome a complex respiratory infection.
In a late update, the Vatican said that the episodes were caused by a “significant accumulation” of the mucus in its lungs and bronchial cramps. “Rapid secretions” were extracted during the bronchoscopies and the Pope was again placed on the non-invasive mechanical ventilation, a mask that covers his nose and mouth and pumps oxygen into the lungs, said the Vatican.
The Vatican has not published any photos or videos from Francis since February 14th with a complex lung infection. This has become the longest absence of his 12-year papacy.
Archbishop asks Francis to speak
The Vatican has defended Francis’ decision to recover in peace and from the public. But on Monday one of his closest friends in the Vatican, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, asked him to let his voice heard and say that the world has to hear it.
“We need men like him who are really universal and not just one -sided,” said Paglia and said after a press conference to start the annual assembly of his papal academy for life, the Bioethics Academy of the Vatican, which is the end of the world as this year? “
Francis wrote a message to the assembly of February 26, in which he complained that international organizations are increasingly ineffective to combat the threats to the world and “short -sighted attitudes that deal with the protection of certain and national interests”.
It is a topic that he has previously articulated. Francis has also repeatedly demanded peace between Russia and Ukraine while trying to maintain traditional diplomatic neutrality of the Vatican, and has tried to achieve a similar balancing act for Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
Even a vatican ambassador, who is not particularly close to Francis, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein said that the believers should hear his voice at a time when the war rages in Europe. Gaenswein was the long -time secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. Francis banished him as the Vatican ambassador in the Baltic States after publishing a memoir that criticized Francis in 2023.
“Pope Francis’ voice is of crucial importance for the whole world because he is the only authority speaks of peace to condemn the war. All wars starting with Ukraine,” quoted La Repubblica Gaenswein.
Francis ’17-Nachte-Hospital stay is by no means close to the papal record in the numerous lengthy hospital stays of St. John Paul II over a quarter of a century.
The Canadian cardinal Michael Czerny tells CBC News that Pope Francis had difficulties three weeks ago during a visit before the Pope was hospitalized and later diagnosed pneumonia.
