Since entering the hospital, the Vatican communication has released a more detailed bulletin at the end of the day, local time,
Michele Oliveira
The night was quiet, the Pope rested, ”said the Vatican on Sunday morning (23), after the worst day that Pope Francis, 88, has passed since he was admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, February 14, there just over a week.
The update released this morning kept the line of that revealed on Saturday morning, equally concise, “the Pope rested well” and only. No references on “Breakfast sitting in armchair”, for example, as was described in previous days.
Since entering the hospital, the Vatican communication has released a more detailed bulletin at the end of the day, local time, and a brief note in the morning.
In the Saturday night newsletter, it was revealed that the Pope’s conditions had gotten worse in the face of an asthmatic respiratory crisis, which required the application of supplementary oxygen. He also needed blood transfusions because the tests showed that he had a low platelet count associated with anemia.
The text described that, for the first time, the prognosis was “reserved”, confirming that the evolution of the Pontiff’s state of health is unpredictable, as the medical team that deals with the Pope had already nominated at a news conference on Friday (21 ). At the time, they said that the Argentine was not out of danger, but at that time, at that time, the risk of dying.
They also stated that the Pope is considered a very fragile patient by age, lack of mobility and due to the existence of chronic respiratory diseases.
As announced, Angelus, as the traditional prayer is called the Pope, from the Apostolic Palace window in São Pedro Square, will not be guided on Sunday by Francisco or a substitute, but will be limited to the publication of a Online text, as had already happened.
This Sunday, at the celebration of the Jubilee of Deacons, an event within the program of the Jubilee of the Church, the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica was led by the archbishop Rino Fisichella.
The Pope was hospitalized on the 14th with symptoms of bronchitis and, at the exams, a polymicrobial infection and bilateral pneumonia were proven. The risk, said doctor Sergio Alfieri, is that the infection reaches the bloodstream and leads to a sepsis, which is an exacerbated inflammatory response of the body to an infection.
