Pope Franciscus can leave the hospital on Sunday

Pope Franciscus is allowed to leave the Gemelli hospital in Rome on Sunday and return to his rooms in the Vatican. The doctor who leads his medical team, Sergio Alfieri, announced this on Saturday In a press conference and that reports Also the official channel Vatican News.

It will cost ‘a lot of time’ for the 88-year-old Pope to completely heal, said Alfieri. Francis must take two months of rest and will in any case be unable to have strenuous meetings or attend agreements with large groups.

When he is fired on Sunday, the Pope has been in the Gemelli Hospital for five weeks. He arrived there on February 14 with shortness of breath. Later it turned out that he suffered from a « complex double pneumonia. » His condition was labeled a week later as criticism. He had two heavy asthma attacks, received oxygen and a blood transfusion due to anemia.

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In the past week, Pope Franciscus quickly improved, says Alfieri. Earlier in the day, the Vatican announced that he would greet and bless the crowd that has been outside the hospital since his admission. On March 6, the Vatican published an audio message from Francis, in which he thanked people for their prayers and messages.

His lungs are a weak spot of the pope. At the age of 21 he was given plough infection, so that some of one of his lungs had to be removed. During the twelve years of his term as Pope, he has been admitted several times. In March 2023 he spent three nights in the hospital with bronchitis. His condition was never as bad as in recent weeks.

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