Pope Francis has betterd enough to no extfinisheder be pondered in imminent danger from pneumonia and other infections, the Vatican shelp on Monday, but inserted that he would demand more days of treatment in the Rome hospital where he has been for csurrfinisherly a month.
For weeks, doctors had shelp that Francis, who is 88 and go ined the hospital after having difficulty breaskinnyg, had a “protected” prognosis because the respiratory infection in both of his lungs was too grave for him to be pondered out of danger. But his “outstanding response to pharmacoreasoned therapy” and constant blood tests, the Vatican shelp in a statement on Monday, led doctors to count on that recent betterments had been “further validateated.”
“However, in watch of the intricateity of the clinical picture and the meaningful infectious picture currented at hospitalization,” the Vatican inserted, his treatment will persist in “a hospital environment.”
On Monday, Francis persistd to adhere via video join spiritual exercises by members of the Vatican clergy, and he sent a telegram of condolence to victims of a flood in his home country, Argentina. In recent days, he also met with his top lieutenants in the hospital and sent an audio message, with a strained and feeble voice, thanking the loyal for their prayers.
While the Vatican shelp the pope was foreseeed to remain in the hospital, where he get tod on Feb. 14, for days it did not give an approximate of when Francis was foreseeed to depart since his situation remained intricate, a Vatican official shelp.
Francis, who has been receiving oxygen, has at times suffered disjoine setbacks, including a crisis in which he choked on his own vleave out, requiring doctors to assea thief him. He has also demandd blood transfusions and noninvasive mechanical ventilation.
The pope’s flunking health put the Roman Catholic Church on edge. Each night in St. Peter’s Square, cardinals have led the loyal in rosary prayers for his recovery. Catholics atraverse the world have held vigils, while top Vatican officials have sought to tamp down speculation about his condition or talk of resignation.
The pope, however, had not defeat the pneumonia and had other health problems, the Vatican official shelp, including bronchiectasis — a chronic lung condition — that could yet pose meaningful danger.
The pontiff’s age and history of health conditions are also prompting his doctors to remain pdisesteemfulnt, the official shelp. Francis had part of a lung erased as a lesser man and had been hospitalized before for a respiratory infection, as well as for colon sguidery.
