Pope Francis is recovering favorably after undergoing a three-hour operation on Wednesday for an abdominal hernia that threatened to obstruct his intestine.
According to the new medical report sent by the Holy See press office, the Pontiff is eating a watery diet and his hemodynamic and respiratory parameters are stable.
During the afternoon he received the Eucharist, and “among all the messages of closeness he has received, he has been moved by the affection of the family of little Miguel Ángel”, a child of Peruvian origin in the pediatric oncology and children’s neurosurgery unit of the hospital whom he baptized during his last admission, at the end of March. His parents have sent him a poster with family images to wish him a speedy recovery. The Pope called them briefly on the phone to thank them.
[Cuántas veces han operado al papa Francisco: de sus problemas de pulmón a su enfermedad en el colon]
Francis was transferred to the Gemelli hospital in Rome after preside over the Wednesday general audience to undergo an intervention agreed upon with his personal doctor after manifesting painful and increasingly frequent symptoms in recent months due to a abdominal incisional hernia which was surely the consequence of other operations produced in the past.
For this reason, and after a CT performed on Tuesday, he underwent a laparotomy that “released” these internal scars and prevented him from suffering an obstruction in the future. “He should do a postoperative, but Once discharged, it will not leave sequelae“His surgeon, Sergio Alfieri, told the press, who remarked that the Pontiff does not suffer from other diseases.
As revealed by his surgeon, the 86-year-old pope will be able to recover his activity normally and only you have been advised to avoid making great efforts.
The Pope’s agenda for this summer includes two international trips. The first to Lisbon at the beginning of August to participate in the World Youth Day. In addition, he is scheduled to travel to Mongolia at the beginning of September in what will be the first apostolic visit of a pontiff to the Asian country.
