2023-06-08 06:06:03
08/06/2023
He Pope Francisco He returned this Wednesday, and urgently, to an operating room. At 86 years old she was He underwent surgery for an incisional hernia and his entire schedule was canceled until June 18. In fact, his health is fragile since he uses a wheelchair and the delicate colon intervention in July 2021.
But Francisco’s health conditions have deteriorated due to the problems he suffers from a kneea disease of which there is no official information and of which the pontiff has said that he does not want to undergo surgery.
for almost a decadeThe world knew him for suffering from chronic sciatica that forced him to limp visibly and for which he had to renounce official ceremonies on several occasions and postpone travels. However, Francisco limped because of a flat foot rather than because of his sciatica, according to what the Argentine doctor and journalist Nelson Castro wrote in the book “The Health of the Popes.”
However, with the intervention of this Wednesday, the alarms about the Pope’s health went off again.
Surgical intervention is “necessary” due to the aggravation of the symptoms presented by the Supreme Pontiff, his medical team indicated. In addition, it will require “several days” of hospitalization, specified the director of the Holy See press service, Matteo Bruni.
After directing, as every week, the general audience in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, and greeting the faithful aboard the “popemobile”, The Argentine pontiff was taken under police escort to the Gemelli hospital, in the northwest of the Italian capital, where he arrived around noon.
Laparotomy, the intervention that they do, consisting of opening the abdomen. “The operation, prepared in recent days by the medical team assisting the Holy Father, has become necessary due to a incisional hernia that causes recurrent, painful and worsening subocclusive syndromes”, added Bruni.
The Secretary of State and number two of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said that this operation will not imply “no vacancy”, “nor a temporary replacement for the pope in the exercise of his functions”.
After the intervention, he will resume the exercise of his ministry, “even if it is from a hospital bed”, Parolin told reporters. “Urgent cases will be taken to the hospital,” he specified.
Medical history
On Tuesday morning, the Pope had already had to go to the Gemelli hospital to undergo some “examinations”, but the Vatican did not detail the nature of them.
In July 2021, the Bishop of Rome had to be hospitalized for about ten days in that same hospital to undergo a colon operation, in which a part of it was removed. According to what he said, he suffered “sequelae” from the anesthesia.
At the end of March, Francis, elected pope in 2013, once again had to be admitted to the Gemmeli hospital for a respiratory infection that required antibiotics.
Francisco, in any case, confided two weeks ago in an interview with Telemundo that this “pneumonia” was treated “in time”, and that if they had waited longer, it could have been more serious.
The holy father’s health has regularly fueled speculation about a possible resignation. On several occasions he said that he would consider resigning – as did his predecessor Benedict XVI, who died on December 31 – if his health required it, but he recently said that such a scenario was not topical.
Despite everything, Francisco maintains his travel program. At the beginning of August he plans to visit Lisbon for the World Youth Days, and in September he has scheduled two trips to Mongolia and Marseille, in the south of France.
The Pope is permanently followed by a medical team, both in the Vatican and during their visits abroad.
A necessary device, especially when you have a heavy clinical history behind you, since with At the age of 21, he suffered from pleurisy, a serious condition that led to the partial removal of one lung.
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