Trustworthy pray for Pope Francis outdoors the Policlinico A. Gemelli Hospital in Rome, the place Pope Francis is hospitalized.
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Pope Francis has “bilateral pneumonia” and continues to obtain medical care at a hospital in Rome, the Vatican introduced on Tuesday.
“Laboratory tests, chest X-ray, and the Holy Father’s clinical condition continue to present a complex picture,” the Vatican stated on Tuesday. The pope has a “polymicrobial infection” that arose throughout a latest bout with bronchitis and complicates the pope’s remedy, the Vatican added. The detection of pneumonia after chest x-rays requires “further drug therapy.”
The 88-year-old Pope is reported to be in “fair” situation, and is claimed to be consuming breakfast, studying the newspapers and even performing some work from the hospital.
Francis had a part of one lung eliminated after a pulmonary an infection as a younger man, and is susceptible to bouts of bronchitis in winter.
Given his situation, some Vatican occasions have been canceled. There shall be no weekly basic viewers on Wednesday, and it isn’t clear if Francis will miss his Sunday midday blessing for a second week in a row.
The Vatican press workplace said that the Pope had, “received the Eucharist and, throughout the day, alternated between rest, prayer, and reading.”
