Pope Francis maintains his “good humor” and intersperses his moments of prayer, reading and rest since he was admitted to the hospital, says the Vatican press office
The doctors who serve Pope Francis at the Gemelli hospital in Rome said that the Supreme Pontiff got up on Wednesday, February 19, his bed, managed to walk and sit in an armchair inside his room in the aforementioned health center where He is held to treat the “bilateral pneumonia” that afflicts him.
The exams practiced to Pope Francis indicate that his heart works normally, as well as indicated that he is responding to treatments and breathes autonomously. In addition, the press office of the Holy See said that the Bishop of Rome had “a quiet night, woke up and had breakfast.”
“The computed tomography of thorax to which the Holy Father was submitted, prescribed by the Vatican health team and by the medical team of the Polyclinic Foundation A. Gemelli, demonstrated the appearance of bilateral pneumonia that requires additional pharmacological therapy,” said a note of the Gemelli Hospital.
The Pope does not receive visits, since he needs “absolute rest” and only access his secretaries that take him some documents.
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The spokesman for the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni, said that Pope Francis remains in a good mood and varies his moments of prayer, reading and rest.
Pope Francis suffers bilateral pneumonia that requires additional pharmacological treatment to that used for polymicrobial infections and his clinical picture remains “complex,” the Tuesday, February 18 The Vatican.
«The computed tomography of thorax that the Holy Father was submitted this afternoon, prescribed by the Vatican health team and by the Medical Team of the Polyclinic Foundation“ A. A. Gemelli, ”demonstrated the appearance of bilateral pneumonia that requires additional pharmacological therapy,” said the Holy See.
Francisco I has been hospitalized since Friday, February 14, after entering for an alleged bronchitis. Then one was diagnosed with «Polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract », although from the Vatican it was explained that the pontiff would be subjected to new exams.
With information from Vatican News / EFE
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