Pope Francis will be discharged from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, says the doctor.

MEDICALAL GEMELS Dr. Dr. Dr. Search the monitoring Saturday that Pope Francis It is expected to be downloaded on Sunday.

The Vatican also announced that the Pontiff would appear publicly on Sunday morning to bless the faithful of his 10 -story suite in the hospital. Then he will return to the Vatican.

At a press conference, Alfieri said the Holy Father experienced “Two very critical episodes” During his hospitalization, when his life was in danger, but since then he has shown an “slow but progressive” improvement due to “pharmacological therapy, the administration of high flow oxygen and assisted mechanical ventilation.” The Pope, however, was never intubated and never lost consciousness, said Alfieri.

Alfieri said on Saturday that Francis will require at least two months of rest and rehabilitation while continuing to recover in the Vatican. He said doctors advise the Pontiff not to know large groups or activities in public during that time of recovery.

Alfieri joined the main doctor of the Vatican Health and Hygiene Office, Luigi Carbone, and Pope’s spokesman Matteo Bruni, at the entrance of Rome in Rome, Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where Pope Francis has been treated since February after February 14 after a bronchitis hoard. The Pope was hospitalized for 38 days while fighting a case of potentially deadly pneumonia in both lungs, their doctors said.

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The Pope experienced “acute respiratory failure due to a polymicrobial infection,” said Alfieri.

The informative session on Saturday night was the first update in person on the condition of the pontiff since February 21, a week after Francis, 88, was taken to the Gemelli hospital. He subsequently experienced several respiratory crises that led him in critical condition, although since then he has stabilized. Due to the double pneumonia, Alfieri told journalists that the Pope’s voice has been damaged but will improve over time.

The doctor added that recovery would continue better outside the hospital, where virus exposure runs the risk of weakening the condition of the Holy Father. Alfieri said the Pope did not have COVID-19, but had been exposed to several viruses.

While Francis launched a Audio message on March 6 And the Vatican distributed a photo of him on March 16, Sunday’s blessing will be the first live appearance since Francis was admitted on February 14, so he has become the longest hospitalization of his 12 -year -old papacy. The Argentine Pope, who has chronic pulmonary disease, is prone to respiratory problems in winter and took part in a lung when he was young.

When the Pope was admitted, the doctors first diagnosed a complex infection of the bacterial, viral and fungal respiratory tract and shortly after, pneumonia in both lungs.

Blood analysis showed signs of anemia, low platelets in the blood and the beginning of renal failure, all of which were then resolved after two blood transfusions, according to officials.

The most serious setbacks began on February 28, when Francis experienced an acute cough adjustment and an inhaled vomit, which demanded that he use a non -invasive mechanical ventilation mask to help him breathe. He suffered two more respiratory crises in the following days, which required that doctors manually aspire to the mucus, at which time he began to sleep with the ventilation mask at night to help their lungs to accumulate the accumulation of fluids.

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In the last two weeks, Vatican’s press office reported that the Pope has stabilized, he no longer needs to use the ventilation mask at night, and it is Reducing your trust in high supplementary oxygen flows during the day.

Alfieri said that the Pope has no double pneumonia, but still has some infections and must continue healing.

Courtey Walsh and The Associated Press contributed to this report.