Pope Francis, hospitalized in a critical state for double pneumonia, spent a good night and “remnants”, Vatican announced on Monday morning in a climate growing concerns about 88 -year pontif.
The Pope is able to get up and eat normally, does not suffer and his mood remains “good”, Vatican source said, adding that treatment will complete their courses in 11E The day of his hospitalization, the longest since its election in 2013.
The Argentine Pope is still in “critical state” and continues to receive high -speed oxygen, according to his last medical bulletin published on Sunday evening.
“The complexity of the clinical picture and the necessary expectations of pharmacological therapies require remaining reserved for forecasts,” specifies this bulletin.
If her anemia has improved and its number of blood plates that have fallen stabilized due to transfusions carried out on Saturdays, “some blood tests show the initial light that is currently under control,” the doctors said.
The state of the Health of the Catholic Church, hospitalized since February 14, was brutally degraded on Saturday “prolonged asthmatic crisis that required high velocity oxygen”, as well as hematological problems that required “blood transfusion”.
His medical team said in recent days that François was not “out of danger”.
On Sunday, the beliefs gathered and laid candles in front of the Gemelli hospital in Rome. François is treated there in a specially furnished apartment on 10E The floor including a small chapel, where he participated in the Mass on Sunday.
For Prbele Donati, an anesthesiologist who leads an intensive care unit in the University Hospital of Stairs, the renal insufficiency of the Pope “could point out the presence of sepsis in the initial phase”.
“This is the reaction of the organization to the ongoing infection, in this case for both lungs. To resist, the immune system produces substances whose spread causes organ dysfunction, ”explained the expert who quoted the daily Il Corriere della.
“Union lynx”
Many prayers for the health of Argentine Pope were organized almost everywhere in Rome, Italy and in the world, especially in Latin America. Religious and political leaders said they were praying for him.
On Monday evening at 9pm (8:00 GMT) will be held in Saint-Pierre prayer for the Pope and patients led by Foreign Minister and number 2 of the Holy See, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
“At the moment of history, we feel a requirement for its presence,” said Jesuit theologian Antonio Spadaro, near the Pope, in an interview with newspapers Republica Published on Monday. “Many people around the world, some of whom have positions of responsibility (…), sincerely fear because François is one of the only people who can make a connection in a world that seems to be divided,” he added.
Internet users also published hundreds of news and said they were praying for François, sharing a lot of photography of the bishop himself on Saint-Pierre during the Pandemie La Cavid-19.
François was originally hospitalized for bronchitis, but the Holy See revealed on Tuesday that it developed double pneumonia, an infection of potentially fatal lung tissue.
This hospitalization, the fourth since 2021, has been of strong concern when the Pope has been weakened in recent years by a number of problems, from the colon and abdomen surgery to difficult walking.
The hospitalization of the Pope, the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics and the head of the state of the Vatican City, revived questions about his ability to take over his function. Canon Law does not provide any provision in the event of a serious problem that would change its clarity.
There is also a summary speculation about the possible resignation of the Pope, who said several times that this moment did not happen.
“The Pope is alive, and it is time to pray, not to think about who will be his successor,” said the daily Corriere della will be the German conservative cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, one of his most vulnerable opponents.
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