2023-06-08 05:49:29
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“10 minutes ago, he even teased me,” Alfieri said at the press conference from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where Francisco is hospitalized.
7/6/2023
After Pope Francis’ operation this Wednesday, June 7, in the middle of a press conference, the surgeon who operated on the pontiff, Dr. Sergio Alfieri, gave statements about the state of health of the Argentine and added some details about the surgical intervention.
“First of all, the pope is fine and awake. This, I believe, is the news that all of you and the whole world are waiting for. He is awake and 10 minutes ago, even, he has teased me ”, Alfieri pointed out at the press conference from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where Francisco is hospitalized.
As soon as he woke up from general anesthesia, the Pope joked with the doctor, who also operated on him in 2021 for a severe diverticular stenosis in the colon, asking him: “When is the third (operation)?”.
“The holy father reacted well to the intervention”, summed up the doctor. On the other hand, Alfieri explained that the abdominal hernia occurred in a “scar from previous laparotomic interventions performed in past years”. “This laparocele had been causing the holy father a painful subocclusive intestinal syndrome for several months”he detailed, without specifying the date on which these pains began.
During the surgical intervention, “stubborn adhesions” were also found in some parts of the “intestine and parietal peritoneum” that caused the aforementioned symptoms.
Alfieri also made it clear that the postoperative phase will not leave any sequelae for the pontiff, who will be able to resume his activity without any limitations. Likewise, he stressed that he does not have other diseases.
“The operation, arranged in recent days by the medical team that assists the Holy Father, became necessary due to an incarcerated eventration that is causing recurrent, painful subocclusive syndromes that are getting worse.”explained in a statement the director of the press service of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni.
The Argentine pope’s audiences were canceled until June 18 “as a precaution,” according to the Holy See’s press service, since the intervention will require “several days” of hospitalization.
After his operation this Wednesday, the Pope will remain on the tenth floor of the Gemelli Hospital, in the same room used by Pope John Paul II, who underwent surgery on several occasions at that medical center. Jorge Bergoglio also suffers from chronic knee pain, which forces him to move in a wheelchair or with the help of a cane.
The holy father’s health has regularly fueled speculation about a possible resignation. On several occasions he said that he would consider resigning —as his predecessor Benedict XVI did, who died on December 31— if his health forced him to, but recently he said that such a scenario was not current.
The pope is permanently followed by a medical team, both in the Vatican and during his visits abroad. A necessary device, especially when you have a heavy clinical history behind you, since at the age of 21 he suffered pleurisy, a serious condition that led to the partial ablation of a lung.
*With information from AFP and Europa Press.
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