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Pope FrancisAccording to the reports, the “condition is” improving “as it receives oxygherapy and high flow therapy with a ventimask, according to a Vatican statement.
“Given the complexity of its condition, more days of clinical stability are necessary to resolve the prognosis,” said the Vatican’s statement.
The balloons are attached in the statue of John Paul II, where people come to pray outside the Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis is hospitalized for pneumonia, in Rome on February 23, 2025. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP through Getty Images)
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The 88 -year -old pontiff was hospitalized on February 14 due to respiratory problems and was then diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia.
“The Holy Father dedicated the morning to respiratory physiotherapy that alternates with rest, while in the afternoon after another physiotherapy session, he met in prayer in the private apartment chapel located on the 10th floor, receiving the Eucharist; then he dedicated himself to labor activities.” The Vatican aggregate.
A woman places a rosary in the statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside the Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis is admitted to receive treatment, in Rome, Italy, on February 22, 2025. (Reuters/Vincenzo Livieri)
Pope Francis’s medical condition: What to know about bilateral pneumonia
On Wednesday, the Vatican said that Pope Francis’s doctors detected the renal failure that had been detected in recent days had retreated, blood tests showed a slight improvement and a computed tomography of the chest showed that their complex pulmonary infection was taking the “normal evolution” as it is.
When writing about him Pope condition On Tuesday, Fox News Channel’s senior analyst, Dr. Marc Siegel, explained that bilateral pneumonia “is more problematic and more difficult to recover”, especially for “an old patient with previous surgeries scars and episodes of pneumonia.”
Pope Francis greets from his population after the weekly prayers of Angelus, in the Plaza de San Pedro in El Vaticano on October 20, 2024. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
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The Pope has dealt with health problems for years and even needed to retire part of his lung in 1957.
Dr. Siegel also touched the Pope who received high flow oxygenia, explaining that the treatment is used for respiratory problems, “but is not as aggressive as CPAP (pressure of the continuous positive respiratory tract) or mechanical ventilation.” He pointed out that it is a “good sign” that the Pope is not in a fan.
“Do not underestimate the impact of great medical care combined with the power of prayer,” adds Dr. Siegel.
Stephen Soreace of Fox News contributed to this report.
