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The 88-year-old Pontiff was rushed to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on 14 February where he is fighting the disease in both lungs.
He is combating a “complex” an infection and was given oxygen and blood transfusions on Saturday amid fears it might unfold to his bloodstream and trigger sepsis, Gemelli’s Dr Sergio Alfieri stated.
“I am confidently continuing my hospitalisation, carrying on with the necessary treatment,” he stated in a pre-written message launched by the Vatican on Sunday.
“I ask you to pray for me,” he added. “Thank you for this closeness, and for the prayers of comfort I have received from all over the world.”
The Pope’s assertion was doubtless written day’s in the past in preparation for Sunday’s prayers, which he has missed as a result of sickness.
In a one-sentence replace launched individually on Sunday, the Vatican stated: “The night was tranquil, the Pope rested.”
Francis, who has been the Pope since 2013, is vulnerable to lung infections as a result of he developed pleurisy as a younger man and had a part of one lung eliminated.
Dr Alfieri stated he was extremely weak due to his age and common frailty, and warned sepsis brought on by the an infection could be “very difficult to overcome”.
“Sepsis, with his respiratory problems and his age, would be really difficult to get out of,” Dr Alfieri stated on Friday, including: “He knows he’s in danger. And he told us to relay that.”
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Doctors first identified the advanced viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract an infection after which the onset of pneumonia in each lungs.
They prescribed “absolute rest” and a mixture of cortisone and antibiotics, together with supplemental oxygen when he wants it.
“He is not out of danger,” stated his private doctor, Dr Luigi Carbone. “So like all fragile patients I say they are always on the golden scale: In other words, it takes very little to become unbalanced.”
Last week, a few of Francis’s cardinals steered the Pope might step down if he develop into too unwell to hold on. Francis has stated he would take into account it, after Pope Benedict XVI “opened the door” to popes retiring
“Everything is possible,” stated Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, the archbishop of Marseille, France. Another cardinal, Gianfranco Ravasi, was requested if Francis would possibly determine to observe within the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI and step down if he turns into too ailing.
“There is no question that if Francis was in a situation where his ability to have direct contact with people as he likes to do was compromised, then I think he might decide to resign,” Mr Ravasi stated.
