L: Dr Luigi Carbone.
R: Dr Sergio Alfieri
Doctors: Pope responding to treatment but not yet out of
danger
At a press conference in Rome’s Gemelli hospital, members of
the Pope’s medical team say that he is not yet out of danger, and will be in
hospital at least another week - but they note that he is joking as much as
usual, and has even begun working again.
By Vatican News
Pope Francis is not “in danger of death”, but he’s also not
fully “out of danger”, members of his medical team have said.
At a press conference in Rome’s Gemelli hospital, Dr Sergio
Alfieri, the head of the team taking care of the Pope, and Dr Luigi Carbone,
the Vice-Director of the Vatican’s healthcare service, spoke for some forty
minutes to a roomful of journalists.
The pair said that they believed the Pope would be hospitalised for "at
least" the entirety of the next week.
Dr Alfieri emphasised that the Pope is not attached to a
ventilator, although he is still struggling with his breathing and consequently
keeping his physical movements limited.
Nevertheless, the physician said, the Pope is sitting
upright in a chair, working, and joking as usual. Alfieri said that when
one of the doctors greeted the Pope by saying “Hello, Holy Father”, he replied
with “Hello, Holy Son”.
Asked by a journalist what their greatest fear is, the doctors noted that there
is a risk that germs in the Pope’s respiratory tract might enter his
bloodstream, causing sepsis.
Dr Alfieri did say, however, that he was confident that Pope
Francis would leave the hospital at some point and return to Casa Santa Marta
in the Vatican – with the proviso that when he does so, his chronic respiratory
issues will remain.
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