Pope Francis, admitted to the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome after an operation on his intestines, “spent a good night”. This was reported by the Vatican press office when speaking of the Pope’s state of health on his third night of hospitalization.
At a press conference, the surgeon Sergio Alfieri, head of the medical team that intervened to remove the abdominal incisional hernia he had, explained that “for the Pope the parameters are regular but minimal efforts are required and for this reason he was asked to cancel the celebration of the Angelus tomorrow.”
“The Holy Father is following a careful convalescence that aims to reduce the stress on the abdominal wall, to allow the implanted prosthetic mesh and muscle plastic repair to heal optimally,” explained the doctor.
angelus in private
The director of the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni, finally confirmed in the last medical report this afternoon that the Pope will recite the Angelus tomorrow, Sunday at noon, “in private, in his hospital room, whoever wants to join him spiritually in the prayer can do so by following the Angelus prayer”, ruling out that the Pontiff appears on the balcony of the hospital as he had done in the previous operation in 2021.
“He wants to go back to work”
“The Pope is fine,” said the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Vatican, Pietro Parolin, in the participation of the #NotAlone event that the Fratelli Tutti Foundation, promoted by Francis, is holding today in St. Peter’s Square.
Referring to the operation, he said that “it went well, the news I received, in addition to what has been published, reports that the result is positive.” “The Pope has already expressed his desire to resume work,” Parolin said, while being consulted by the hospital’s medical discharge “he will depend on the doctors,” the cardinal emphasized in response to questions from journalists.
The operations that the Pope had
During his life, the 86-year-old Pope Francis has undergone four surgeries to date. He did two when he was a priest in Argentina in 1957 and 1980 and the other two as Pope. The last two surgeries were performed at the Gemelli hospital where he is hospitalized.
The first was an intervention to remove a section of intestine with diverticula, which was carried out in July 2021, and the recent one on June 7. The latter was an incisional hernia operation, a hernia that formed over a scar from a previous operation and had enlarged and could be “imprisoned” or “strangled” causing various complications, it was not related to the surgery two years ago in another area of the intestine, but with previous surgeries.
Source: Ambito
