Bilateral pneumonia is discovered to Pope Francis, he will receive additional therapy

A bilateral pneumonia discovered to the Pope this Tuesday at the Gemelli hospital in Rome complicates the already “complex” clinical picture of Francisco, which must receive additional treatment that is supplied by the polymicrobial infection that forced to hospitalize it.

Pope Francis “suffers bilateral pneumonia that requires additional pharmacological therapy that is used for polymicrobial infection and its clinical picture remains” complex, “the Vatican said Tuesday, in the last medical part.

“The computed tomography of thorax that the Holy Father was submitted this afternoon, prescribed by the Vatican health team and by the Medical Team of the Polyclinic Foundation” A. A. Gemelli ”, demonstrated the appearance of bilateral pneumonia that requires additional pharmacological therapy, “is indicated in the note.

In addition, “polymicrobial infection, which occurs in a context of bronchiectasis and asthmatic bronchitis, and which requires the use of cortisone antibiotic therapy, makes therapeutic treatment more complex.”

For all these reasons, the Holy See highlights that “laboratory exams, chest radiographs and clinical conditions continue to present a complex picture” for Francisco, which must maintain the “absolute rest” that the doctors already prescribed two days ago.

But despite all complications, The 88 -year -old pontiff, “is in a good mood” and receiving great signs of love outside and inside the hospitalwhere the families of children admitted to the Oncology department has sent letters and drawings.

“He appreciates the closeness he feels at this time and asks, with the grateful heart, to continue praying for him,” concludes the statement.

In his fifth day of hospitalization, and as in preceding days, this morning he received the Eucharist and, during the day, he alternated the rest with the prayer and reading of texts, after spending a quiet night “as the Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, Matteo Bruni, explained to the journalists.

Also on Tuesday the Vatican confirmed that, for the moment, the Pope’s agenda was annulled until Sunday and that at the Mass on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Deacons will be replaced by the head of the Dicasteria for Evangelization, Rino Fisichella.

While it is unknown if there will be any way that I can celebrate the Dominical Angelus prayer from the hospital, as happened on previous occasions, or if it will send it in writing, such as last Sunday.

“The Pope is locked in a hospital room and I think this is terrible to him, but it is really necessary and we wish him a speedy recovery,” said one of his nearby collaborators, the Undersecretary of the Dicasterio of Education and Culture, Antonio Spadaro, in an interview.

Already in the last part of Monday it was indicated that the Pope’s clinical picture was “complex”, which made a longer Francisco hospitalization of what is initially planned.

As it has been known, with Pope Francis are his two secretaries, who take some documents and the newspapers, while the Pontiff performs some work activities, although he has been advised to rest.

Despite its hospitalization, Francisco returned to talk to the parish of the Sagrada Familia, the only Catholic Church of Gaza, explained to the Italian media his pastor, the Argentine priest Gabriel Romanelli.