Pope will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday

Pope Francis will be discharged from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, the doctors who treat it said.

The 88 -year -old has been recovering from double pneumonia and will need at least two months of rest in the Vatican after leaving the hospital.

The public has only seen it since he was admitted to the hospital on February 14, in a Photography released by the Vatican last week, who showed him praying in a hospital chapel.

The Vatican had said on Friday that the Pope’s condition was improving, although an official said he could have to “learn again to speak” after prolonged use of high flow oxygenia.

“The Pope is going very well, but the high flow oxygen dry everything. He needs to learn how to speak, but his general physical condition is as it was before,” Cardinal Victor Fernández said Friday on Friday, Reuters reported.

The Vatican on Friday had added that the Pope’s condition was stable, with some improvements in breathing and mobility.

He confirmed that he no longer uses mechanical ventilation to breathe at night, but was receiving oxygen through a small tube under his nose. During the day, it is using less high flow oxygen.

Earlier this month, an audio recording of Pope Francis was reproduced in his native Spanish in the Plaza de San Pedro in the city of the Vatican.

His voice was out of breath when he thanked the faithful Catholics for their prayers.

The cardinal, who is head of the Vatican doctrinal office, dismissed the speculation that the Pontiff would follow his predecessor Benedict XVI and renounce the papacy.

When asked if he thought that the Pope could be discharged in time for Easter, which falls on April 20, the cardinal said he did not know.

Pope Francis has spent almost 12 years as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

He has suffered a series of health problems throughout his life, including the part of one of his lungs eliminated at age 21, which makes him more prone to infections.