2023-06-07 17:15:00
He Pope FranciscoThe 86-year-old underwent surgery this Wednesday for three hours on his abdomen in a hospital in the city of Rome, in an intervention “without complications”, the Vatican reported, and for which he suspended his hearings until June 18.
“The surgical intervention ended: it was carried out without complications and lasted three hours”reported the Vatican at 6:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m. in Argentina).
Jorge Bergoglio returned to Cemi in the morning, the Center for Aging Medicine of the Gemelli University Polyclinic of Roma, where he underwent an operation under general anesthesia. On Tuesday he had already been at the hospital where the necessary controls for the operation and pre-surgical analyzes would have been carried out, according to what he learned Scope by a high source Vatican.
The director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, reported that, following the General Audience on Wednesday, June 7, the Pontiff went to the Gemelli Hospital to be subjected to general anesthesiato one laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with a prosthesis.
According to medical sources, It is an operation that seeks to put a containment net or mesh in the pontiff’s abdomen to finish closing the wound caused by the 2021 intervention and which put a complication at the intestinal level at risk.
The official statement
At the end of the General Audience this Wednesday, June 7, The Holy Father Francisco went to the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital, where in the early followingnoon he will undergo, under general anesthesia, a laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with a prosthesis. This was reported this morning by the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, in a statement to journalists.
Bruni added: “The operation, arranged in recent days by the medical team that assists the Holy Father, became necessary due to a laparocela encapsulada what is causing you recurrent, painful and worsening subocclusive syndromes“.
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The spokesman concluded by specifying that the Pope’s stay at the health center it will last several days to allow the normal course of the postoperative period and full functional recovery. It is estimated that seven days minimum. In fact, the prefecture of the Papal Household sent letters to all the people who had an audience with the Pope and canceled the meetings at least until the June 18.
Before going to the Gemelli, however, he led the traditional general audience on Wednesdays and held two meetings early in the morning, one with the Philippine cardinal Luis Tagle, his possible successor.
Hospitalization in March
On March 29, days before Easter, the Pontiff was hospitalized at the Gemelli hospital for a few days due to a respiratory infection.
At that time, the Vatican Press Office had spoken of “a control visit” when the news broke, although later he officially reported that it was a respiratory infection (excluding Covid 19 infection) that required a few days of hospital medical therapy proper”.
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Apparently, last March Francisco was not convinced of hospitalization but had been persuaded by his trusted nurse, Massimiliano Strapppetti54, appointed last year Pope’s “personal health assistant”. It was the Pope himself who told how that nurse had “saved his life” in July 2021, when Bergoglio was hospitalized for the first time in Gemelli: “He told me: ‘You have to have surgery.’ And this despite the contrary opinion of those who proposed to limit themselves to antibiotic therapy.”
At that time, he underwent surgery for diverticulitis for which 33 centimeters of intestine were removed due to “symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon” that kept him hospitalized for ten days. Earlier this year, he had stated in statements to the press that the diverticulitis had returned but was “controlled.”
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