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Papa Francis is In critical After suffering a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that demanded high oxygen flows, Vatican He said.
88-year-old Pontiff, Who was in hospital for a week with Complex lung infectionThey also received blood transfusions after tests showed a condition associated with anemia, the Vatican said in the late update on Saturday.
“The Holy Father was still warned and spent a day in the armchair, although in more pain than yesterday. Currently, the forecast is reserved,” statement said.
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Francis’s doctors said his condition was touched and go And that he is by no means out of danger.
They warned that the main threat to the francs would be the beginning of sepsis, a serious infection that may appear as a complication of pneumonia – and can lead to organs’ failure.
There were no evidence of any sepsis since Friday, and Francis responded to different drugs he took, in his first detailed update he cited the Pope.
Francis, who has a chronic lung disease, was admitted to Gemelli Hospital 14. February after getting worse in the weekly bronchitis.
The doctors first diagnosed a complex virus, bacterial and fungal respiratory pathway, and then the beginning of pneumonia in both lungs. They prescribed a “absolute vacation” and a combination of cortisons and antibiotics, along with additional oxygen when he needs.
Dr. Sergio Alfieri, Head of Medicine and Hospital in Rome, said the biggest threat to Francis was that some germs currently found in their respiratory system, causing sepsis.
“Sepsis, with his respiratory problems, would be really difficult to go out,” Alfieri said on Friday on Friday, adding, “He is in danger. And he told us to say that.”
Meanwhile, the Vatican hierarchy went to the defense in the respect of rumors and speculation that Francis could decide to resign. There is no provision in Canon for what to do if the Pope becomes incapable. Francis said he wrote a resignation letter that would be called if he was medically incapable of making such a decision. The pope remains fully aware, warning, eating and working.
Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, gave a rare interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della sera to respond to speculation and rumors about the resignation of possible. He came after the Vatican issued an unusual and official rejection of the Italian media report, which said Parolin and the head of the Pape, visited Francis in the hospital in secret. Given the canonical requirements that the residues of resignation adopted the legitimate implications of such a meeting were significant, but the Vatican flat amount denied that there was any such meeting.
Parolin said that the newspaper such speculation seemed “useless” when what was really the health of Francis, his recovery and return to the Vatican.
“On the other hand, I think that it is quite normal to spread uncontrolled rumors in these situations or say some wrong comment. It certainly doesn’t happen,” Parolin is quoted as a saying. “However, I don’t think there’s a particular movement, and I haven’t heard that something so far.”
Deakons, in the meantime, gathered on the Vatican for their special weekend for the Holy Year. Francis became ill at the beginning of the sacred year, once – every quarter of the century Catholicism celebration. This weekend, Francis was to celebrate the deacon, the Ministry in the Church preceded by the regularity in the priesthood.
At his place, the organizer of the Holy Year will celebrate on Sunday Mass, the Vatican said. And for the second consecutive weekend, he expected Francis to skip his traditional Sunday noon blessing, which he could deliver from Gemelli if he was on it.
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