Pope Francis’s clinical conditions are “stationary” and there is a “slight improvement,” the Vatican press office reports this afternoon. The Holy Father is hospitalized in the Gemelli Polyclinic since February 14, suffering from bilateral pneumonia.
“The clinical conditions of the Holy Father are stationary. Blood analysis, evaluated by medical staff, show slight improvement, especially in inflammatory indices, ”says the last statement of the Vatican of February 19.
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In yesterday’s communication, the press office indicated that the appearance of pneumonia put Pope Francis in a “complex clinical picture”, so the pharmacological therapy had to be adjusted.
Today’s last statement informs that “after breakfast, he read some newspapers and then dedicated himself to his work with his closest collaborators. Before lunch he received the Eucharist. ”
“In the afternoon, she received the visit of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with whom she talked 20 minutes in private,” he concludes.
After the meeting, which was held between 3:10 and 3:30 pm (local time), according to Vatican Fuentes, Meloni said he was “very happy to have found him alert and receptive.”
“We have joked as always. He has not lost his proverbial sense of humor,” he said.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.