Medical Gemels Dr. Dr. Dr. Search on Saturday alfiered that Pope Francis It is expected to be fired on Sunday.
The Vatican also announced that the Pope would appear publicly on Sunday morning to bless the believers of his 10th floor in the hospital. He will then return to the Vatican.
During a press conference, Alfieri said that the Holy Father experienced “Two very critical episodes” During his hospitalization when his life was in danger, but since then a “slow but progressive” improvement has shown due to “pharmacological therapy, the administration of oxygen with high current and supported mechanical ventilation.” However, the pope is never intubated and never lost consciousness, said Alfieri.
Alfieri said on Saturday that Francis needs at least two months of rest and rehabilitation while he continues to recover in the Vatican. He said that doctors advise the Pope not to meet large groups or activities in public during that recovery time.
Alfieri was accompanied by the chief doctor of the Vatican’s Health and Hygiene Office, Luigi Carbone, and the spokesperson for the Pope, Matteo Bruni, in the entrance Hall of Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where Paus Francis has been treated after a bolt of Bronchitis. The pope was admitted to hospital for 38 days while fighting a life -threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs, his doctors said.
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Pope Franciscus waves out of his popemobile after the weekly Angelus prayers on the Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican on October 20, 2024. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
The pope experienced “acute respiratory failure due to a polymicrobial infection,” said Alfieri.
The Saturday evening briefing was the first personal update about the state of the Pontiff since 21 February, a week after the 88-year-old Francis was brought to the Gemelli hospital. He then experienced various breathing crises that ended up in critical condition, although he has stabilized since then. Because of the double pneumonia, Alfieri said reporters that the pope’s voice is damaged, but that it will improve over time.
The doctor added that recovery would go the best way to the hospital, where exposure to viruses the state of the Holy Father runs the risk of weakening. Alfieri said the pope had no Covid-19, but he was exposed to different viruses.
From the left, chief doctor of the Vatican’s Health and Hygiene Office, Luigi Carbone, the spokesperson for the Pope, Matteo Bruni, and surgeon Sergio Alfieri, Saturday 22 March 2025, in the entrance hall of Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
While Francis one Audio message on March 6 And the Vatican distributed a photo of him March 16, the blessing on Sunday will be the first live performance since Francis on February 14 was admitted for what has become the longest hospitalization of his 12-year-old papacy. The Argentinian pope, who has chronic lung disease, is susceptible to breathing problems in the winter and has a part of one lung that has been removed as a young man.
When the pope was admitted, doctors first put a complex bacterial, viral and fungal practice infection and shortly thereafter, pneumonia in both lungs.
Blood tests showed signs of anemia, low platelets and the start of kidney failure, which were later resolved later after two blood transfusions, according to officials.
Surgeon Sergio Alfieri speaks to journalists, Saturday 22 March 2025, in the hall of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic of Rome about Pope Franciscus. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
The most serious setbacks started on 28 February, when Francis experienced an acute cough fit and inhaled vomit, so that he had to use a non -invasive mechanical ventilation mask to help him breathe. The following days he suffered two more respiratory crises, for which doctors had to manually aspirate the mucus, at which point he started to sleep with the ventilation mask at night to help his lungs clear the accumulation of liquids.
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In the past two weeks, the Vatican press office reported that the pope has stabilized, no longer has to wear the ventilation mask at night and is Cut their dependence At high streams of additional oxygen during the day.
Alfieri said that the pope no longer has double pneumonia, but still has a few infections and must continue to heal.
Courteney Walsh and the Associated Press of FOX News have contributed to this report.
