He Pope Francisco has left this Friday morning the Gemelli hospital in Rome upon being discharged from the abdominal hernia operation that he underwent on June 7. The operation lasted three hours and she required general anesthesia, but she has made a good recovery.
Francis, of 86 yearsleft the Gemelli hospital in Wheelchair, showing a good appearance, waving and smiling. He walked past reporters and supporters waiting for him at the main entrance as he was led to a waiting car to take him from back to vatican.
“The Pope is fine. He’s in better shape than beforeSergio Alfieri, the chief surgeon who operated on Francis on June 7, told reporters outside the hospital after the pontiff had left.
Pope Francis is discharged from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.
Alfieri said at a press conference last Saturday that the pope’s postoperative period was goodbut that he had been advised against celebrating the Angelus publicly from the hospital to avoid efforts that put at risk the healing of the mesh that has been placed on the abdominal wall.
He also stressed that “the pope has not had no heart problem nor has he suffered a heart attack” and explained that two months ago he had a small problem (pneumonia) “as any 86-year-old person can have, but he has practically no type of treatment; the only thing, the knee problem“.
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The medical team had advised him to stay in for full recovery at least all this week, but Francis decided to be released Friday to continue his recovery at the Vatican.
Yesterday Thursday, the pope thanked all the Gemelli staff for their attention and visited the department of Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric Neurosurgery, where they are hospitalized some children who transmitted their love to him in recent days through numerous letters, drawings and messages wishing him a speedy recovery.
is the third time that the pope is admitted to the Roman hospitalsince he was also hospitalized for three nights at the end of March for “acute pneumonia” and was operated on on July 4, 2021 of the colon and discharged after 10 days, followed by a slow recovery.
The Pope’s schedule, which had to be canceled until June 18 due to surgery, will resume in August since, traditionally, he takes the month of July off, Sunday blessings being his only public appearances. In the remainder of June, he will give audiences and receive, at least, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaand that of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Thus, Francisco contemplates two international trips this summer. The first to Lisbon at the beginning of August to participate in the World Youth Day. In addition, it is planned that he will travel to Mongolia at the beginning of September, where he will be the first apostolic visit of a pontiff to the Asian country.
