The clinical picture of Pope Francis “progressively improves” after his operation on Wednesday for an abdominal hernia and the postoperative period proceeds normally, he was able to get up and spend the morning sitting in an armchair and resumed his work, according to the medical report communicated this Friday by the Vatican.
“Pope Francis rested overnight. The medical team reports that the clinical picture is progressively improving and the postoperative period is normal. After breakfast, His Holiness began to move around and spent most of the morning in an armchair. This allowed him to read the newspapers and resume their initial work,” the Vatican statement read.
Francisco spent his second quiet night at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, after the operation that had to be necessary to avoid intestinal occlusion and in which some adhesions were removed and a mesh was placed on his abdomen.
On Thursday afternoon it was reported that Francisco had been fed “with a liquid diet. The hemodynamic (which studies blood circulation) and respiratory parameters are stable.
The postoperative evolution is normal.
The pope spends his third day hospitalized in the pontifical apartment on the tenth floor of the Roman hospital and it is still unknown how many days he will remain hospitalized.
Doctor Sergio Alfieri, who operated on him, explained that
For this type of operation, 5 to 7 days of hospitalization are needed, but he said that it must be taken into account that the Pope is 86 years old.
On Thursday, the Pope received the Eucharist as it was Corpus Christi and among the messages he received, he was surprised by the poster made for him by the Peruvian family of the baby he himself had baptized during his previous hospitalization last March, for pneumonia, and called the mother to thank her.
This is the third time that Francisco has been admitted to the Gemelli, after the colon operation in July 2021, when 33 centimeters of intestine were removed, and pneumonia last March.
For the moment, the Vatican has canceled all the audiences and acts of the pope until June 18 and the two trips he will make to Lisbon at the beginning of August to participate in World Youth Day and to Mongolia at the end of the same month are maintained. .
