The operation under general anesthesia of Pope Francis, 86, for an abdominal hernia ended Wednesday “without complications”, announced the Vatican. “The intervention is over: it took place without complications and lasted three hours,” the press service of the Holy See told reporters. Audiences with Pope Francis have been canceled until June 18, AFP learned from the press service of the Holy See.
Pope Francis is ‘good’, ‘conscious’ and even ‘joking’ after his operation on Wednesday for an abdominal hernia,” the surgeon who performed the procedure also announced. This “benign” operation, decided on Tuesday, will not cause any sequelae and Jorge Bergoglio does not suffer from any other pathology, said Professor Sergio Alfieri during a press conference at the Gemelli hospital in Rome.
On Wednesday morning, the Argentine pope presided over the general audience in St. Peter’s Square in front of thousands of faithful. “At the end of the general audience, the Holy Father went to the A. Gemelli University Hospital where, in the early afternoon, he will undergo a surgical operation of laparotomy and plastic surgery of the wall abdominal with prostheses, under general anesthesia,” said Matteo Bruni.
“The operation, organized in recent days by the medical team assisting the Holy Father, became necessary due to an incisional hernia which causes recurrent, painful and worsening subocclusive syndromes”, had -he adds. On Tuesday morning, the head of the Catholic Church had already gone to the Gemelli hospital for “exams”, but the Vatican had not communicated on the nature of the latter. In July 2021, the Bishop of Rome had already been hospitalized for ten days in this hospital for a major colon operation. He claims to have had “sequelae” from the anesthesia.
