We share with you in detail the state of health of Pope Francis in recent years. From 2021 until today, he will undergo a new operation.
He Pope Francisco86, will undergo this Wednesday in a rome hospital to one new operation on the abdomenafter the diverticulitis for which he was already intervened in 2021, reported the Vatican.
“At the end of the General Audience, the Holy Father traveled to the A. Gemelli University Hospital where in the early afternoon he will be underwent laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with prosthesis under general anesthesia,” said the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, in a statement on the pope’s health.
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What is Pope Francis operating on?
According to Matteo Bruni, “the operation, arranged in recent days by the medical team assisting the Holy Father, became necessary because of a incarcerated incisional hernia what is causing recurrent, painful and worsening subocclusive syndromes“.
The pain led, according to Vatican sources, to the pontiff finally accepting a new intervention with general anesthesiawhich had opposed in 2022 to treat your Right knee problems.
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With respect to hospitalization time that you will have to comply with, this will last a few days to allow the course normal postoperative and full functional recovery.
Medical part
The Vatican reported that it will only issue a statement once the operation for which the Pope left his residence at Casa Santa Marta at 10:55 a.m. local.
Review of Bergoglio’s health
Francisco underwent surgery in July 2021 for a diverticulitis for which you they removed 33 centimeters of intestine because of a “symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon” who had it hospitalized for ten days.
Earlier this year, he had stated in statements to the press that the diverticulitis had returned but was “controlled.”
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In March of this year, he had been admitted to the same medical center for a Respiratory infection that forced him to suspend some hearings.
In this line, it is expected that by July it will suspend its general audiences on Wednesdays, while in August, for the moment, it has in schedule a trip to Portugal to participate from 2 to 6 World Youth Day and then it will go to Mongolia for a week visit.
Source: Ambito
