The medical part of this Tuesday indicates that the pontiff is continuing his recovery successfully. He will be hospitalized all week.
The results of the controls to which Pope Francis has been subjected are “normal” and the pontiff continues with his work activities at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where he has been admitted since last Wednesday for an operation on an abdominal hernia, reported this Tuesday the Vatican.
“The Holy Father has rested well during the night. The hematochemical controls he underwent were normal; he continues with respiratory physiotherapy,” says the latest bulletin from the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni.
According to the Vatican, Francisco, 86, dedicated Tuesday morning to work activities, something he has been doing for a few days and before lunch he went to the private chapel of his apartment on the tenth floor of the hospital, “where collected himself in prayer and received the Eucharist”.
The surgeon Sergio Alfieri explained that “in recent days all intravenous treatment has been suspended” to Francisco. Photo: EFE
This Monday, Francisco addressed a message to the eldest daughter of magnate Silvio Berlusconi, Marina Berlusconi, to convey his condolences on the death of the former Italian prime minister, in which he expressed his condolences for “the loss of a protagonist of Italian political life “.
On Sunday, the Vatican had already explained that Jorge Bergoglio was able to get up and take a step while he prayed the Angelus in the chapel of the private apartment on the tenth floor of the hospital.
The doctors had advised against the pontiff from celebrating the Angelus publicly from the hospital to avoid efforts that put at risk the healing of the mesh that has been applied to the abdominal wall after the operation in which some adhesions were removed that could have caused a bowel obstruction.
The surgeon who operated on him last Wednesday and also in July 2021 in the colon, Sergio Alfieri, explained in a press conference this Saturday that “in recent days all intravenous treatment has been suspended and he is fed a semi-liquid diet Her blood work and postoperative chest X-ray are good.”
The medical team has advised him to remain hospitalized for his full recovery for at least this entire week and Francisco accepted, Alfieri reported.
Message: poverty and rising prices
Despite the Pope’s hospitalization, the Vatican released a statement from Francis on Tuesday, a message addressed to the World Day of the Poor, which will be celebrated on November 19.
In it, Francisco lamented that many families in the world “must choose between food and medicine” due to the rise in prices, while calling for “a serious and effective political and legislative commitment” against poverty.
The media stand guard in front of the Gemelli hospital in Rome. Photo: EFE
“I cannot forget the speculations that, in various sectors, lead to a spectacular increase in costs that make many families even more destitute,” the pontiff said in his message for the World Day of the Poor to be celebrated on November 19. .
In this context, the Pope denounced that “salaries end quickly forcing privations that threaten the dignity of every person.”
“If a family must choose between food to nourish itself and remedies to cure itself, then the voice of those who claim the right to both goods must be heard in the name of the dignity of the human person,” he stated.
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