Doctors said on Monday Pope Francis As a result of the pneumonia, which supported his hospitalized for almost a month, he was no longer at risk of death, but decided to keep him hospitalized for several days to get treatment.
In late updates, doctors said the 88-year-old pope remains stable and has consolidated improvements in recent daysAs defined by blood tests and positive reactions to drug treatment.
A Vatican They said the doctors raised their previous “protective” forecast, that is, they determined that it was no longer undergoing inevitable danger as a result of the initial respiratory infection with which it arrived on February 14. But their caution remained.
“However, given the complexity of the clinical picture and an important infectious picture presented at admission, it will be necessary to continue medical therapy in hospital conditions for additional days,” the Vatican said.
In the sign of his improvement, Francis followed the weekly spiritual retreat in the Vatican through a video conference on Monday in the morning and afternoon.
Like Sunday, Francis participated in the retreat remotely from the Rome Hospital, where he was treated. He could see and hear the Reverend Roberto Pasolini, a preacher of the papal household, but priests, bishops and cardinals gathered for retreat in the Vatican Actual Hall, could not see him or hear it.
This week, Pallarini holds a number of reflections on “Hope for Eternal Life” Francis was admitted to Hemel Hospital in Rome on February 14 with a complex infection of the lungs.
Retreat, the annual collection that starts Solemn season of the Catholic Church What leads to Easter continues for a week. The Vatican said that Francis would participate in spiritual communion with the rest of the hierarchies from afar.
Francis also resumed his physical and respiratory therapy at the Hemeli Hospital, rested and prayed between them. Francis uses a nose tube for extra oxygen to help it breathe in the afternoon and non -inflicted mechanical ventilation mask, the therapy it continued on Monday.
In an 88-year-old Pope, who has a chronic pulmonary disease and a young man was removed in a young age, there was just a bad case of bronchitis when he was hospitalized last month. The infection has gone into A complex respiratory tract infection And double pneumonia, which has fallen behind Francis for a long period of its 12-year-old papacy and raised questions about the future.
Francis still followed the things. The Vatican said he was informed about the floods in his native Argentina and expressed his proximity to the affected population. In addition, Cardinal Vatican, close to Francis, spoke on Monday to refute some negative media reports that spread in his absence.
The Vatican Development Administration published a letter written by Cardinal Michael Cherni, one of Francis' close friends, a social justice activist Juan Hrabois. Hrabois went to Rome to pray for Francis at the Hemel Hospital, and some Italian media reported last month that he tried to get into the hospital set of Francis, which he refused.
In a letter on March 6, Cherny told Grabois that Francis “knew about your presence in Rome and the daily vigils of prayer and spiritual solidarity in polycolinic gemli, and I am sure it gave him real comfort and support.”
“In addition, I know that you join me by rejecting unjustified versions that spread in some media about allegedly inadequate behavior in the hospital,” Cherni wrote.
The Vatican is always with rumors, but has assumed Francis' health assumptions and talk about the results, although Francis is very alive and responsible. The fact that Carni considered it necessary to protect one of Francis' friends, stated that the rumors and maneuvering in the absence of Francis had crossed the line.
On Thursday, the Vatican will celebrate the 12th anniversary of the election Francis, the first with the Pope from sight, but still responding. Francis was chosen by 266 -m papa, First Jesuit Pope And first from Latin America on March 13, 2013, after resignation Pope Benedict XVI.