2023-06-07 09:30:06
Pope Francis at Gemelli Hospital for abdominal surgery and abdominal wall reconstructive surgery using artificial aligners. The director of the Press House of the Holy See explains that hospitalization in the health facility will continue for several days.
A new operation for Pope Francis at Al Gemili Hospital “for abdominal surgery and reconstructive surgery of the abdominal wall using artificial orthoses”. This is what the Director of the Press House of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni, said, explaining that the operation would take place in the early followingnoon in the Roman Hospital, where the Holy Father went immediately following his general audience with the faithful in St. Peter’s Square.
“The operation – as we read in the memorandum – which was arranged in recent days by the medical team caring for the Holy Father, became necessary because of the incisional hernia causing recurring, painful and aggravating syndromes. The hospital stay in the health facility will last for several days to allow for normal postoperative progression and full functional recovery. Pope Francis had conducted some tests at Al-Gimili Hospital yesterday morning. The examinations lasted less than an hour, following which the Holy Father returned, as stated in a memorandum issued by the Press House of the Holy See, to his residence at Santa Marta’s House.
It is the third surgery at Al Gemili Hospital. As we remember, the Pope was hospitalized on March 29 with a respiratory infection that caused him respiratory problems. Then he was discharged on the first of the following April, following a quick and positive progress. At the end of the month, at the press conference he gave on the plane upon his return from Hungary, the Pope told reporters who asked him regarding his health: “What I experienced was a strong ailment at the end of Wednesday’s general audience. I was not comfortable at lunch, I slept little, I did not want I lost consciousness, but my temperature was high, it was high, and at three o’clock in the followingnoon, the doctor immediately took me to the first aid department: acute and severe vision inflammation in the lower part of the lungs. I can say – thank God – that the body responded well to the treatment. Praise be to God This is what happened to me.” In another recent interview with Telemundo, the pontiff explained that being hospitalized was “something really unexpected, but we caught it in time. They told me, if we had waited a few more hours it would have been more serious. But within four days I was out.”
More complicated was the surgery that the Pope underwent on July 4, 2021, for a narrowing of the colon due to the formation of some diverticula. The operation was performed under general anesthesia (which Pope Francis himself publicly revealed caused him some discomfort) in public good health for the then 84-year-old Pontiff. During these last years, the knee problems that the Holy Father treats with various treatments, including laser therapy and magnetic therapy, which – as he explained to the Associated Press – strengthened the bones and allowed him to be able to walk once more with a cane on short trips and sometimes with the help of a brace. to the knee. For long distances, he used a wheelchair.
And now the Holy Father will undergo a new process that must be met with prayer and with that humor which, as the Pope himself said many times, and according to the teaching of St. Thomas More, “is always beneficial”. The same humor that characterizes all his answers to the simplest questions: “How are you?”, “I’m still alive!”
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