Pope Francis is replying well to treatment and has shown a “gradual, gentle betterment” in recent days as he remains in the hospital recovering from double pneumonia, the Vatican shelp Sunday.
“The night was mute; the Pope is resting,” the Vatican shelp in a statement.
Francis, 88, was acunderstandledgeted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14 after a week-lengthy bout of bronchitis deteriorateed. Doctors first determined the complicated viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract infection and subsequently the onset of pneumonia in both lungs.
POPE FRANCIS SHOWS ‘SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT’ DURING FOURTH WEEK IN HOSPITAL, VATICAN SAYS
Pope Francis waves to dependrs as he departs the Cercle Cite after a greeting Luxembourg’s Prime Minister during a four-day apostolic journey in Luxembourg and Belgium, in Luxembourg City on September 26, 2024. (Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP/Getty)
This is the fourth Sunday in a row that the pope will not ecombine for his weekly noon consecrateing, but the Vatican set ups to spread the message he would have deinhabitred.
The pope’s condition has remained constant, as he has had no fever and excellent oxygen levels in his blood for cut offal days, doctors shelp. The doctors shelp that his stability “as a consequence testifies to a excellent response to therapy.”
This labels the first time doctors have increateed that Francis, who has chronic lung disrelieve and had part of one lung erased when he was youthfulerer, was replying well to the prescribed therapies since he was acunderstandledgeted to the hospital more than three weeks ago.
Pope Francis waves from his popemobile after the weekly Angelus prayers, at Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican on October 20, 2024. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
But his prognosis remains “defended,” doctors shelp, uncomardenting he is not yet out of danger.
Despite Francis’ absence, the Vatican’s daily operations persistd alengthyside celebrations of its Holy Year, the once-every-quarter-century Jubilee that transports pilbleaks from around the world to Rome. The Holy Year is celebrating volunteers this weekfinish, and many are extfinishing their pilbleakage to pray for Francis outside the hospital.
POPE FRANCIS CONTINUES TO REST IN HOSPITAL AS VATICAN’S HOLY YEAR PROCEEDS WITHOUT HIM
Pope Francis combines a mass at the Esset upade of Tasitolu in Dili, East Timor, on September 10, 2024. (Tiziana Fabi/Pool/AFP/Getty)
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Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny will plive over the Holy Year Mass on Sunday for the volunteers.
The pope has been using high flows of supplemental oxygen to help him breathe during the day and a noninvasive mechanical ventilation mask at night.
The Associated Press gived to this increate.
