2023-06-07 09:01:22
Pope Francis will be operated today at the Gemelli hospital in Rome for risk of intestinal obstruction and will have to be hospitalized for several days, the Vatican reported.
“At the end of the General Audience, the Pope will travel to the University Hospital, where in the early afternoon will be submitted under general anesthesia to a surgical intervention of laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with prosthesis”, indicated the Holy See in a statement.
The Vatican explained that “the operation, arranged in recent days by the medical team assisting the Pope, has become necessary because of a incarcerated incisional hernia causing recurrent, painful and worsening subocclusive syndromes”.
The 86-year-old pontiff, “will be admitted for several days to allow the normal postoperative course and full functional recovery,” added the Holy See.
The operation has been considered urgent after the results of the CT scan that he underwent this Tuesday and occurs after the colon intervention in July 2021.
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In a recent interview with the US agency AP, Francisco revealed that he was suffering from diverticula again, the problem for which he had to undergo surgery and had a small part of his colon removed, but that he was in good health.
Francis underwent surgery in this Roman hospital on July 4, 2021 and was discharged after 10 days, followed by a slow recovery.
Is about the third time that the pope is admitted to the Roman hospitalsince he was admitted for three nights at the end of March at the Gemelli hospital for “acute pneumonia.”
The other Pope suffers from a problem with his right knee that forces him to walk with a cane or a wheelchair and has assured on several occasions that he does not want to undergo surgery. EFE
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