UPDATE: POPE FRANCIS STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION – VATICAN
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According to the Vatican on Monday, Pope Francis, who is critically ill in the hospital with pneumonia in both lungs, had a restful night.
On February 14, the 88-year-old pope, who has presided over the global Catholic Church since 2013, was admitted due to respiratory issues.
“The night passed well, the pope slept and is resting”, the Vatican said. This is the longest hospitalisation of in Francis’s papacy.
The 88-year-old pope, the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church since 2013, was admitted on February 14 with breathing difficulties.
He was initially diagnosed with bronchitis but this developed into pneumonia in both lungs — and on Saturday night, the Vatican warned for the first time that his condition was critical.
On Sunday it said he continues to receive “high-flow” oxygen through a nasal cannula, and blood tests demonstrated an “initial, mild, renal failure, currently under control”.
Francis is alert but “the complexity of the clinical picture, and the need to wait for the pharmacological treatments to have some effect, mean that the prognosis remains reserved”, it concluded.
Abele Donati, head of the anaesthesia and intensive care unit at the Marche University Hospital, told the Corriere della Sera daily that the renal failure “could signal the presence of sepsis in the early stages”.
“It is the body’s response to an ongoing infection, in this case of the two lungs”, he said.
Professor Sergio Alfieri, leading the medical team treating the pope at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, warned at a press conference on Friday that “the real risk in these cases is that the germs pass into the blood”, which could result in sepsis, a life-threatening condition.
Catholics worldwide are praying for Francis’s recovery as a result of his ongoing hospitalisation, which has caused great worry.
Additionally, it has fanned rumours that he would resign.
He has always maintained the option of succeeding Benedict XVI, who resigned in 2013, making him the first pope to do so since the Middle Ages.
He has stated time and time again, however.
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