He Pope Francisco86 years old, was internship this wednesday in Gemelli hospital in Rome to be subjected to “scheduled medical check”, according to the Vatican. Hours later it was learned that he suspended all activities for the week and that he will spend the night hospitalized.
“The Holy Father is in [el hospital] Gemelli from this afternoon for previously scheduled controls”, indicated the director of the press office of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni. According to what he reported in the Vatican, the hospitalization is due to a bad state due to apparently respiratory problems.
He entered the hospital at 3:45 p.m. by ambulance, after complaining of respiratory discomfort upon entering the Santa Marta residence after the General Audience – in which he was seen well – which he holds every Wednesday in San Pedro Square. In a context of total secrecy, the official medical part of the Gemelli Hospital is expected.
The Pope is hospitalized on the 10th floor of the hospital together with his personal staff and security men from the Holy See.
A hospitalization that was not planned on the eve of Palm Sunday and the Holy Week celebrations, the most important period of the year in which Francisco had a large number of celebrations to preside over.
The first press release from the Holy See, issued this afternoon at 4:09 p.m. in Italy, spoke of “pre-scheduled controls.”
previous hospitalization
Pope Francis had already been hospitalized at the Gemelli in July 2021, but at that time the Vatican statement immediately spoke of a “planned intervention”, the removal of part of the colon due to diverticular stenosis where he was hospitalized for eleven days.
Francisco, 86, said a few days ago that he felt in good health when asked how he felt after ten years of pontificate: “I am old, I have less physical resistance, the knee was a physical humiliation, although it is already healing good”.
Pope Francis before dead migrants in Mexico
Jorge Bergoglio regretted today the “tragic fire” that this Tuesday left at least 38 migrants dead in a detention center in Mexico and summoned the faithful gathered in Plaza San Pedro to pray for the victims.
“Let us pray for the migrants who died yesterday in a tragic fire in Ciudad Juárez, in Mexico”requested the pontiff when greeting in Spanish the Spanish-speaking faithful who followed the General Audience in Plaza San Pedro.
“So that the Lord receives them in his kingdom and gives comfort to the families. Let us pray for them,” added Francisco, referring to the people of various Latin American nationalities who died when a station of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in Ciudad Juárez caught fire. , in Mexico.
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For its part, the latest balance reported by the Mexican government, 38 people, including Colombian, Ecuadorian, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran and Venezuelan migrants, died in the fire.
Activities of the day
As reported, 10,000 medicines were sent for the earthquake victims which on February 6 produced more than 50,000 deaths in Turkey and Syria.
Through the Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, head of the Department for Charity, In the last 24 hours, Pope Francis sent some 10,000 medicines by plane to the affected areaspecified a statement from the organization dedicated to the works of proximity of the pontiff.
This week’s donation adds to the aid sent by the Pope hours after the earthquake that displaced almost 2 million people in Turkey, when the Apostolic Almshouse sent canned food, diapers and other materials for the most urgent needs, such as thermal shirts .
Source: Ambito
