Sick pontifex
Pope for four weeks in the hospital – “quiet night”
The concern among believers is still great: Pope Francis has been in the hospital for four weeks with pneumonia. He never stayed away from the Vatican for that long.
Pope Francis has been treated in the hospital for four weeks. According to the Vatican for the 88-year-old, the 28th night in the Gemelli Clinic in Rome went without additional complications. “The Pope spent a quiet night,” it said in a message in the morning. The Vatican did not provide any further information on his state of health.
Francis has been in the hospital since February 14th. He suffers from a complicated bilateral pneumonia. According to the treating doctors, he has been on the way of slight improvement for a few days. However, this is slowly progressing.
Francis committed anniversary of his Pope election in clinic
On Thursday, the Argentine -born in the hospital spent the twelfth anniversary of his election as the head of the Catholic Church in the clinic. On March 13, 2013, Francis, bourgeois Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was successor to the German Pope Benedict XVI. chosen to the pontifex. He received a cake from the medical staff for the anniversary.
The doctors in the Gemelli Clinic keep back with a possible discharge date. In the hospital in the west of Rome there is a wing specially intended for popes on the tenth floor. Most recently, it was speculated, Francis’ residence in the Vatican, the Casa Santa Marta, could be prepared in order to be able to treat him there in the future.
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Source: Stern
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