A woman on Saturday gives a candle near a candle, adorned with Pope Francis photos outside the Agostino Jemeli Polyclinic, where Pope Francis is battling pneumonia in Rome.
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The Vatican stated that Rome – Pope Francis was in critical condition on Saturday, when he faced a long -stained respiratory crisis, requiring high flow of oxygen, the Vatican said.
Vatican said in a late update that 88 -year -old Francis, who has been hospitalized for a week with a complex lung infection, also received blood transfusions, even after the tests, he received blood transfusions.
The statement said, “The Holy Father continues to be cautious and spends the day in an armchair, although more in pain than tomorrow. The pregnancy is reserved at the moment,” the statement states.
Earlier, doctors said that Francis was struggling with a pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection that doctors say that the touch-and-go would stay and keep it hospitalized for at least one more week.
The Vatican carried forward his holy year ceremony without the Pope on Saturday.
In an earlier brief update on Saturday, Francis slept well overnight.
But doctors have warned that the main danger in front of Francis will be the beginning of sepsis, a severe blood infection that can occur as a complexity of pneumonia. Till Friday, there was no evidence of any sepsis, and Francis was responding to various drugs he is taking, the Pope’s medical team said in his first intensive update on the Pope’s position.
“He is not out of danger,” his personal doctor, Dr. Luigar Carbon said. “So like all delicate patients I say they are always on a golden scale: in other words, it seems very little to be unbalanced.”
Francis, who has chronic lung disease, was admitted to Jameli Hospital on 14 February after a week of bronchitis.
Doctors first diagnosed infections of complex viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract and then introduced pneumonia in both lungs. They prescribed “complete rest” and a combination of cortisone and antibiotics, as well as with complementary oxygen when it requires it.
Carbon, who took care of him in the Vatican with Masimiliano Strepeti, a private nurse from Francis, admitted that he had insisted on working in the Vatican, even after being ill, “institutional and” institutional and Due to private commitments. ” He was taken care of by a cardiologist and infectious expert in addition to his individual medical team before he was hospitalized.
Dr. of medicine and surgery at Jamelli Hospital, Rome. Sergio Alfiary said the biggest threat to Francis was that some germs located in their respiratory system passes into the bloodstream, causing sepsis. Sepsis can lead to failure and death of the organ.
“Sepsis, with his respiratory problems and their age, would really be difficult to get out,” Alpiery said at a news conference in Jamelli on Friday. “English says’ knocking on wood, ‘We say’ touch iron.” Everyone touches what he wants, “he said he exploited the microphone.” But this is the real risk in these cases: these germs pass the bloodstream. “
“He knows that he is in danger,” said Alpiery. “And he asked us to relay.”
Meanwhile, Decons, Vatican was gathering for his special Jubilee weekend. Francis became ill at the beginning of the Holy Year of the Vatican, a once-every quarterly century celebration of Catholicism. At the end of this week, Francis was observed in the church, a ministry, Decons, which was before coordination for the priest.
Vatican said that in his place, the Holy Year organizers will celebrate the mass of Sunday. And for the second weekend in a row, Francis was expected to leave his traditional Sunday afternoon blessing, which he could distribute from Jamelli if he was above it.
“Look, even though he is not here (physically), we know that he is here,” Louis Arnoldo Lopez Quirindongo said, a deaf of pons, Puerto Rico who was in the Vatican for the Jubilee festival on Saturday. “She is recovering, but she is in our hearts and is with us because our prayer and it moves together.”
In addition, doctors have said that Francis’s recovery will take time and regardless that they still have to live with their old respiratory problems in the Vatican.
Alpheri said, “He has to overcome this infection and we all hope that he will end on it.” “But the fact is, all doors are open.”
