Pope Francis‘ well being has taken a flip for the more severe.
The 88-year-old skilled an “asthma-like respiratory disaster of extended depth, which required the administration of high-flow oxygen,” and his situation “continues to be essential,” the Vatican mentioned Feb. 22, greater than every week after the pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church was hospitalized.
“The pope just isn’t out of hazard,” their assertion added. “In the present day’s blood exams additionally revealed thrombocytopenia, related to anemia, which required the administration of blood transfusions. The Holy Father stays alert and spent the day in an armchair, though he’s extra uncomfortable than yesterday. In the intervening time, the prognosis stays guarded.”
The pope was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital February 14 for a respiratory tract an infection and was later identified with double pneumonia.
The pontiff, who has been pope since 2013, is liable to respiratory infections. In 1957, he developed a extreme an infection in a single lung and underwent surgical procedure to take away a part of it.
