The 88 -year -old Pope has continued to improve in Y, for the first time, the doctors who attend to him no longer speak of a reserved prognosis, that is, they consider that he is out of the most risk area. “It is no longer in imminent danger,” Vatican Fuentes explain, who need that he has not yet overcome pneumonia, and in fact he continues to spend the night with a mask and, during the day, he receives oxygen therapy with nasal cannulas. This is the main novelty of this Monday’s medical part, broadcast at 19.49, after 24 days of permanence of the Pontiff at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. There was not a part since Saturday, because they are no longer daily, but on alternate days due to the stability of Francisco’s conditions, and the previous one indicated a “gradual, slight improvement.”
“The clinical conditions of the Holy Father continue stable. The improvements recorded in the previous days have been further consolidated, as confirmed by both blood tests, clinical objectivity and good response to pharmacological treatment, ”says the statement, the most openly optimistic in these weeks. “For these reasons, doctors have decided today to end the forecast [reservado]”, He concludes. “However, considering the complexity of the clinical picture and the important infectious picture presented to admission, it will be necessary to continue, for more days, pharmacological medical therapy in the hospital environment.” The fact that, implicitly, considers the possibility of discharge, saying that at the moment it is not possible and must continue to be admitted, it also constitutes a novelty.
Vatican Fuentes, in any case, have pointed out that it is still premature to speak of an exit from the hospital’s Pope and the return to the residence of Santa Marta, in the Vatican, where he lives. “These are positive signs in the evolution of the pathology, which must be taken, however, with caution and caution, since pneumonia has not yet been overcome and the clinical picture remains complex, although there are no imminent dangers,” summary.
The Vatican has also explained that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has continued, connected by videoconference, in the morning and in the afternoon, the spiritual exercises of the curia, which are always held in Lent. He also did it on Sunday. In any case, he could see the images of the classroom Paul VI, where they take place, but those present could not see him. There are no images of the Pontiff since he entered the hospital, and only his voice was heard last Thursday in a brief recorded message for the faithful gathered in the Plaza de San Pedro. This past Sunday he also worked, and received the visit, for the third time, from the Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and his right hand, the Venezuelan Edgar Peña Parra.
The Pope was admitted on February 14 with a bronchitis that had been dragging for at least 10 days; a more serious disease, and although it seemed to overcome it, on the 22nd it crossed a prolonged asthmatic crisis, with symptoms of anemia that forced a transfusion and with a mild initial renal failure. It was the worst moment. Bergoglio left the “critical phase” on the 27th, but. It was considered an isolated episode, but made new complications fear because it aspired vomiting and ran the risk of developing a new infection. After 48 hours, doctors considered that there was no danger. However, on Monday 3, he suffered “two episodes of acute respiratory failure, caused by an important accumulation of endobronchial mucus and consequent bronchospasm.” They were taken over at the end of the day. Since February 21 there is no press conference of the medical team, although the Vatican has assured that another will be convened in the next few days.
