07/05/2021 7:28 AM
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Updated 07/05/2021 7:42 AM
The 84-year-old Pope Francis is in "good general condition, conscious and breathing by himself", after the surgical intervention to which he was subjected this Sunday for a colon problem.
According to the Vatican, the pontiff remains hospitalized at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, where he is recovering from the operation
"for a diverticular sigmoid stenosis"
, a colon ailment that affects especially the elderly and that had been programmed in advance.
The director of the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni, reported that the Pope will remain hospitalized for seven days to evaluate his evolution after the intervention.
Francisco arrived at the hospital on Sunday to undergo a previously scheduled surgery.
He is interned on the tenth floor, the same one where John Paul II was.
The operation lasted three hours and general anesthesia was applied.
Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis is located.
Photo: EFE
According to Bruni himself, the Pope
"reacted well to the operation in which he was given general anesthesia
.
"
The doctor in charge of the operation was the head doctor of the department of digestive surgery at the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital, Sergio Alfieri.
Like every Sunday, at 12 noon,
Francis had prayed the Angelus prayer
leaning out of his window in his private study in the Apostolic Palace.
His schedule for the next few days will be reduced, although he has an international trip scheduled for September 12-15 to Slovakia.
Since his papacy began, Francis had only undergone cataract surgery in December 2019. On that occasion, it was a simple, routine laser-based eye surgery, which did not mean that the Pope had to be hospitalized any more. beyond a few hours.
The pontiff himself had warned him during a visit to the Roman prison of Regina Coeli.
"It does a renovation well because at my age, for example, the cataracts come and the reality is not well: next year I will have to operate," he himself had commented while talking with the detainees of the Rome prison.
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