June 12, 2023, 10:11 AM
June 12, 2023, 10:11 AM
“The medical staff informs that the postoperative period of the Holy Father continues to be normal, observing the medical prescriptions,” says the latest bulletin from the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, on the health of Pope Francis.
the pontiff “continues to eat normally” and “this morning he has received the Holy Eucharist and then he has dedicated himself to his work activities”, it is added in a brief note.
Already this Sunday, the Vatican had explained that Jorge bergoglio he was able to get up and take a few steps, while he prayed the angelus in the chapel of the private apartment on the tenth floor of the hospital.
A letter was also released that the Pope sent to the pediatric neuropsychiatry and neuropediatric health personnel at the Gemelli polyclinic in which he wrote: “You are the image of the Church as a field hospital”, in response to the letter in which they told him about the difficult moment they are going through with these little ones.
The doctors had advised against the pontiff from celebrating the Angelus publicly from the hospital to avoid efforts that put at risk the healing of the mesh that has been applied to the abdominal wall after the operation in which some adhesions were removed that could have caused a bowel obstruction.
The surgeon who operated on him last Wednesday and also in July 2021 on the colon, Sergio Alfieri, at a press conference on Saturday, explained that “in recent days all intravenous treatment has been suspended and he is fed on a diet “semi-liquid. His blood work and post-op chest X-ray are good.”
Alfieri also stressed that “the pope has not had any kind of heart problem nor has he suffered a heart attack,” Alfieri said when asked by journalists during a press conference at the hospital.
The medical team has advised him to remain hospitalized for his full recovery for at least the whole week and Francisco accepted, according to Alfieri.
