Pope Francis remains stable and has shown “slight improvements” in his mobility and breathing, according to the Vatican press office this Friday, March 21.
“These last days of the Pope have elapsed between medical therapy, motor and respiratory physiotherapy, work activity and prayer. Its conditions are stable, with slight improvements also in terms of motor and respiratory activity,” says the information given to journalists. The last update before this was held on Wednesday, March 19.
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In addition, the bulletin points out that “high flow oxygen, also thanks to the improvement of gaseous exchanges, has been reduced during the day always trusting more in nasal platelets.”
“Night mechanical ventilation is still suspended. At night he has used high flow oxygen,” the message underlines.
The press room of the Holy See reported that the next medical bulletin will be published “not before Monday.”
On the Angelus on Sunday, March 23, the Vatican said that “so far we can foresee a written text” by Pope Francis.
In addition, the report emphasizes that in recent days the Pontiff has not received visits and that, with respect to his discharge from the Gemelli Hospital, where he remains since February 14, “doctors have not provided any estimated period.”
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.