Pope Francis who is not in danger will remain in the hospital for at least another week, doctors say

Pope Francis“The situation is not life-threatening, but he is not out of danger, his medical team said on Friday, because the 88-year-old Pontif was his first week at a hospital with pneumonia at the top of chronic bronchitis.

Francis doctors delivered their first personal update about the pope’s condition, saying they would remain hospitalized at least all the next week. The Pope receives occasional oxygen supplements when he needs and responds to reinforced drug therapy he receives in the fight pneumonia and complex lung infectionhis doctors said on Friday.

Hospital Gemelli Dr. Sergio Alfieri said Pontif’s state of “is a little better”, it is clear that he had not hooked on any machine – and said Francis crawled jokes.

“The question is, is the Pope out of danger? No, the Pope is not out of danger,” Alfieri said during a press conference on Friday.

Francis’s personal doctor, Dr. Luigi Carbone, said the Pope responded to the drug therapy that was reinforced after pneumonia was diagnosed earlier this week. It also fights multiple infection of bacteria and viruses in the respiratory tract. Doctors said there was no evidence that the germs had entered his bloodstream, which is known as sepsis for which they said they would be the biggest concern. Sepsa is a complication of an infection that can lead to organ and death failure.

Francis also receives additional oxygen when he needs to have a thin flexible tube that carries oxygen through the nose through the nasal canil.

Francis was recognized to Gemelli Roman Hospital on February 14 after the case with bronchitis was getting worse. The doctors later diagnosed with a complex respiratory infection, which includes bacteria, virus and other organisms and the beginning of pneumonia in both lungs at the top of asthmatic bronchitis. They prescribed a “absolute vacation”.

While his stay in the hospital is withdrawing, some of Francis’s Cardinals began to answer the apparent question that circulates: can Francis resign if he becomes irreversibly ill and incapable of continuing. Francis said he would consider it, after Pope Benedict XVI. “Open the door” to the pope who retreated, but did not show the signs to step down and in recently claimed that the Pope’s job was for life.

Prior to updating the medical team on Friday, the Vatican said that Francis had marked a one -week spot at his hospital, getting out of bed to have breakfast. Late on Thursday, the Vatican reported about “mild improvement” in its overall clinical condition, and his heart worked well.

contributed to this report.