Pope Francis has improved enough that he is no longer considered in the immediate danger of pneumonia and other infections, the Vatican said on Monday, but added that he would take more days of treatment at a hospital in Rome, where he was almost a month.
Doctors said in weeks that Francis, who is 88 and entered the hospital after breathing difficulties, had “Kept” forecast Because the respiratory infection in both of his lungs was too serious to be considered a danger. But his “good response to pharmacological therapy” and stable blood tests, the Vatican said in a statement on Monday, brought doctors to believe that recent improvements were “further consolidated”.
“However, given the complexity of the clinical picture and a significant contagious image presented on hospitalization,” Vatican added, and treatment will continue in the “hospital environment.”
On Monday, Francis continued to monitor the spiritual exercises of the video links of members of the Vatican clergy, and the Telegram condolences the victims of the flood at his homeland in Argentina. In recent days he met with his best lieutenants at the hospital and sent audio messagesA tense and weak voice, thanks to the faithful on their prayers.
Although the Vatican said that the Pope was expected to stay in the hospital, where he arrived on February 14, he did not give an estimate when Francis was expected to leave since his situation remained complex, said the Vatican official.
Francis, who received oxygen, sometimes suffered severe failures, including a crisis in which He was suffocating to his vomitingdemanding a doctor to aspirate him. It also required blood transfusion and non -invasive mechanical ventilation.
Papa Health failure Put the Roman Catholic church on the edge. Every night at St. Peter’s Square, the cardinals led believers in the prayers of the Rosary for his recovery. Catholics around the world have kept alertness, while top Vatican officials have sought to dampen the speculations of his condition or Talk about resignation.
The Pope, however, did not overcome pneumonia and had other health problems, said the Vatican, including bronchiectasis – a chronic lung state – which could still be a significant danger.
The Pope and the history of health status also encourage his doctors to stay careful, the official said. Francis was removed by part of the lungs as a young man and had previously been hospitalized to respiratory infectionas for colon surgery.
