The Pope’s condition improves, the forecast is no longer ‘guarded’: Vatican | News about religion
In recent days he reports on Holy See “improvements”, indicating that Pontiff will be able to leave the hospital soon.
Pope Francis responds well to hospital treatment of double pneumonia and his doctors are no longer afraid of his life, says the Vatican.
The Vatican added on Monday that the 88-year state of Pontiff was “stable” with doctors who raised their earlier forecast “guarded”, indicating that she was now out of danger and that he could soon leave the hospital.
Francis has been at the Gemelli University Hospital for more than three weeks. He was admitted on February 14 with a severe respiratory infection that required evolutionary treatment.
Pope’s doctors said that in the previous days they recorded “improvements”, which were “consolidated” with “blood tests and clinical assessments, as well as a good response to his medication,” Vatican said.
He added that doctors expected Francis “to continue treatment of medicines at the hospital for further days.”
The exact time frame for the emptying pope has not been provided.
Francis was under a “guarded” forecast, which means he was not out of immediate danger, most of the hospital stay.
The Pope is described as in a stable or improvement of the situation last week after two crisis of “acute respiratory insufficiency” on March 3.
The Vatican said earlier on Monday that Francis continued with his treatment and that he had undergone respiratory physiotherapy to help breathing.
The Pope, who has used a wheelchair in recent years due to his knee and back pain, also continued with some physical therapy to help his mobility, states.
Francis receives oxygen in the hospital, using a little hose with oxygen under the nose and at night non -invasive mechanical ventilation while sleeping.
The Pope has suffered several bad health injuries in the last two years and is prone to lung infections because he had Pleuris as a young adult and was part of one lung.
Double pneumonia is a serious infection in both lungs that can light and wiring them, making it difficult to breathe.
The leader of the world’s nearly 1.4 billion Catholics works and excludes in the hospital and after news when possible, including the deadly floods that hit his homeland of Argentina.
