The Pope thanked the Gemelli staff for their care these days and visited the Department of Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric Neurosurgery. Photo: Vatican News/Twitter.
Pope Francis will be released this Friday after undergoing surgery for an abdominal fracture at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on June 7. “Medical staff report that Pope Francis had a good night’s sleep.
The postoperative period proceeds regularly. “The hematochemical tests are normal” and the Pope “confirmed that he will leave the Gemelli Polyclinic this Friday morning,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a note.
The Pope thanked the Gemelli staff for their care these days and visited the Department of Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric Neurosurgery, where some children are hospitalized, who in recent days have expressed their love for him through numerous letters, drawings and messages and wished him a speedy recovery. . In photos released by the Vatican, Jorge Bergoglio can be seen in a wheelchair, greeting patients and staff in the hospital corridors.
“Pope Francis experienced the pain of these children who every day, together with their mothers and fathers, carry the suffering of the cross on their shoulders. He presented each of them with a rosary and a book and, greeting those present, His Holiness thanked all the health workers for their professionalism and their commitment to alleviating the suffering of others, as well as medicines, with tenderness and humanity,” the said Vatican.
The Pope met on Thursday “as a token of gratitude” with “the surgical team composed of medical, nursing, socio-sanitary and support staff who coordinated, performed and facilitated the surgical intervention on June 7th”.
Francisco underwent a 3-hour operation under general anesthesia to resorb painful “adhesions” in his abdominal wall resulting from his colon surgery in July 2021. Since then, he has been recuperating on the 10th floor of the Gemelli Hospital, known as the “Hospital of the Popes”, in the same room used several times by John Paul II.
The surgeon who operated on the Pope last Wednesday and also on the colon in July 2021, Sergio Alfieri, said at a press conference on Saturday that the Pope’s postoperative period was good but that he had been advised not to leave the Angelus hospital publicly celebrate. Avoid efforts that jeopardize healing. The medical team advised him to stay in the hospital for at least the whole week for his full recovery.
Francisco decided to be admitted until Friday to continue his convalescence at the Vatican, which had suspended all Pope activity until June 18 and retained the rest of his official acts.
(With information from page 12)