This Saturday Pope Francis left the Gemelli hospital in Rome after he was admitted on March 29 after suffering a lung infection. According to spokesman Matteo Bruni, the treatment was not for a COVID-19 contagion but for bronchitis that would have made it difficult for the Supreme Pontiff to breathe.
After his departure, Pope Francis joked with the media present about his state of health. “I’m still alive,” said the representative of the Holy See, who arrives in Vatican City this Saturday to preside over the Palm Sunday mass from Saint Peter’s Square, laughing.
According to the Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, after leaving the care center, the Pope went to the Basilica of Santa Maria La Mayor. The pope stopped in front of the icon of Mary, where he entrusted to prayer the children he met yesterday in the hospital’s Department of Oncology and Pediatric Neurosurgery, all the sick and people suffering from illnesses or the loss of loved ones. .
The Supreme Pontiff has for some time suffered from various medical conditions, including diverticulitis, a common condition that can cause inflammation or infection of the colon. In addition, Francisco has been seen using a cane for some time. It is known that as a young man he suffered severe pneumonia and had part of a lung removed.
However, the doctors reported that the Pope is fine and has been evolving satisfactorily from the lung infection. It was anticipated that his holiness will preside over the events of the Holy Week celebrations and there will be no changes in the activities that he should preside over. “This provision is already planned before the Pope was hospitalized,” Bruni said.
With information from EFE and CNN
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