Pope Francis’ situation improved enough that he would be fired from the hospital in Rome on Sunday and sent to recover in the Vatican for at least two months, his doctors said on Saturday night.
They added that his case of pneumonia in both lungs was so serious that he had twice brought his life to a serious danger.
The doctors said that the pope’s condition had been stable for the last two weeks and that he had prevailed his most dangerous infections, but that he had not been fully cured and had to rest for at least two months.
He will need therapy and oxygen, such as normal for patients who recover from pneumonia, before they could continue their regular schedule, his doctors said. They invited the Pope to avoid meetings with large groups, people with young children and other possible sources of infection.
Dr. Sergio Alfieri, leader of a medical team who took care of the Pope, said Pontif was looking for days when he could go home.
“He was very happy,” said Dr. Alfieri.
Catholics around the world have been praying for weeks to recovery the pope, and since February 25, the cardinals have led Night prayer of the Rosary In St. Peter’s Square, which attracts hundreds of believers every night.
Pope Francis was received to the hospital on February 14 With bronchitis, which developed into pneumonia in both lungs, complicated by a microbial tract infection. Doctors did not float words when they held Press conference at Gemelli Hospital on February 21warning that “not out of danger” because of its age and chronic lung disease.
For several weeks, Francis remained in a critical state because he experienced an asthmatic respiratory crisis, initial, mild kidney failure and bronchial spasm that made him inhale vomiting after coughing. During the night, he used non -invasive mechanical ventilation, alternately with oxygen therapy with high flow during the day.
On March 10, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had improved sufficiently that he was no longer considered in the immediate danger of pneumonia and other infections, but said he would take him more days in the treatment of patients. He began to slowly reduce the use of oxygen therapy.
Last Sunday Vatican issued The first photo of the pontiff Ever since he entered the hospital, and on Saturday he announced that Francis could show up on Gemelli’s balcony to give Angelus’ blessing tomorrow.
Francis was already fragile. Part of one lung has been removed as a young man, and in recent years he has struggled with numerous health problems, using a wheelchair or a reed to move. Hospitalized S. Bronchitis 2023and again a few months later to subjected to abdominal surgery for a bun, associated with colon surgery He was 2021.
Francis often struggled with bronchitis during the winter months but did not stop Pope Maintenance of a strenuous schedule In the weeks before his hospitalization, enhanced by the opening of the anniversary in 2025, the year of faith, the penance and the forgiveness of sin that only take place every quarter of a century.
