Pope Francis to leave the hospital on Sunday, return to the Vatican to continue recovery, doctors say
Pope Francis He will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday – five weeks after being admitted to the treatment of double pneumonia, the doctors who treated the Pope announced. He will return to the Vatican, but doctors said he would need at least two months of rest and rehabilitation after leaving the Gemelli hospital in Rome.
88-year-old Pontiff struggled with a double pneumonia in both lungs after being admitted to the hospital On February 14 after bronchitis, which made him a speech. Since then, he has lost his public gaze.
Earlier on Saturday, Said the Vatican That Francis will first publicly appear in five weeks and “intend to wave and offer a blessing” from the hospital after the prayer of Angelus.
The pope missed Angelus’ prayer for five weeks for the first time in his papacy. Angelus’ prayer of the Pope usually recites every Sunday from the window overlooking St. Peter’s Square to the assembled believers.
Current hospitalization is the longest papacy of Francis. Marked by a rollercoaster failure, including respiratory crises,, mild kidney failureAnd a strong cough fit, who forced doctors to put Francis on a mechanical ventilation mask.
Although weeks out of public, the Pope shared a a recorded message At the beginning of March, thanks to people for prayers on his recovery. Message – which emphasized Francis’s weak and arduous voice – played in St. Peter’s Square for believers gathered for the night recitation of the Rosary Prayer. Vatican too posted a photo of the Pope in prayer.
During the hospital stay, the church celebrated 12th anniversary Francis’s papacy with Mass in his honor.
Pope Francis did not convince himself of sharing an unprecedented level of detail when it comes to his health, following a century of secrecy over the medical states of Pontiph.
