Doctors said on Monday Pope Francis He is no longer in the immediate danger of death as a result of pneumonia that kept him hospitalized for almost a month, but they decided to keep him hospitalized for a few more days to treat.
In a late update, doctors said the 88-year-old Pope remains stable and consolidated improvements in recent days, which has been determined by blood tests and positive answers to medication treatment.
The Vatican said that the doctors raised their previous “guarded” forecast, which means that they found that he was no longer in the immediate danger as a result of the original respiratory infection he arrived with on February 14th, but their caution remained.
“However, given the complexity of the clinical picture and an important contagious image presented when admission, it will be necessary to continue medical therapy with medicines in the hospital lineup for additional days,” the Vatican statement said.
As a sign of improved health, Francis followed Vatican’s weekly spiritual withdrawal through video conferences on Monday in the morning and afternoon sessions.
As he did on Sunday, Francis participated in withdrawing remote from the hospital in Rome, where he was treated. He could see and hear the Reverend Robert Pasolini, a preacher of the papal household, but priests, bishops and cardinals gathered for withdrawing at the Vatican auditorium they could not see or hear him.
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Pasolini supplies a number of meditation this week to “hope for eternal life”, a topic selected before Francis was admitted to the Gemelli Roman hospital on February 14th with a complex lung infection.
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The withdrawal, an annual gathering that begins the solemn Lenten season of the Catholic Church leading to Easter, continues throughout the week. The Vatican said that Francis would participate in a “spiritual community” with the rest of the hierarchy, from far away.
Francis also continued his physical and respiratory therapy at Gemelli Hospital, resting and praying between. Francis used the nasal pipe for supplementary oxygen to help it breathe during the day and at night the non -invasive mechanical ventilation mask, the therapy he continued on Monday.
The 88-year-old Pope, who has a chronic lung disease and had a part of one lung as a young man, had what was just a bad case of bronchitis when he was hospitalized last month. The infection progressed in a complex respiratory tract infection and a double pneumonia that ran in Francisco in the longest period of 12-year-old papacy and asked questions about the future.
Francis was still watching things. The Vatican said he was informed of floods in his native Argentina and expressed closeness to the affected population. In addition, the Vatican Cardinal close to Francis spoke on Monday to kill some negative media reports circulating in his absence.
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The Vatican Development Office has published a letter written by Cardinal Michael Czerny to one of Francis’ close friends, Argentine’s social justice activist Juan Grabois. Grabois traveled to Rome to pray for Francisco at Gemelli Hospital, and some Italian media reported last month that he tried to forcibly enter Francis’s hospital apartment on the 10th floor.
In a letter of March 6, Czerny told Grabois that Francis “knew about your presence in Rome and your daily prayers and spiritual solidarity in Gemelli Polyclinic -Ii I am sure that this has given him true comfort and support.”
“In addition, I know you join me in a strong rejection of the unfounded versions that have circulated in some media about alleged inappropriate behavior in the hospital,” Czerny wrote.
The Vatican is always awful of rumors, but he has gone in an excessive speculation about Francis’ health and talks about conclaves, although Francis is very alive and main. The fact that Czerny thought it was necessary to defend one of Francis ‘friends suggested that rumors and maneuvering in Francis’ absence had crossed the line.
On Thursday, the Vatican will mark the 12th anniversary of Francis’ elections, the first with the pope outside of sight, but still in charge. Francis was selected for the 266 Pope, the first Jesuit pope, and the first from Latin America on March 13, 2013, after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
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