Pope Francis was admitted this Wednesday to the Gemelli hospital in Rome. According to hospital sources, he arrived by ambulance with “heart problems.” According to Vatican sources, their hearings scheduled for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow have been cancelled.
Apparently, the Pope began to feel chest pain late in the morning, immediately after the general audience held today in Saint Peter’s Square, when he was already in his residence at Casa Santa Marta. At that time, his personal nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, advised him, out of prudence, to go to the cardiology service for check-ups.
The admission is considered “not worrisome”, but the Pope – vigilant and collaborative, although visibly fatigued – was nevertheless subjected to various tests, including a CT scan, and according to some hospital sources he is under constant control in his room on the tenth floor. The computed tomography of the chest would have given a negative result, which is valued with general relief by those around the Pope, starting with Andrea Arcangeli, director of Health and Hygiene of the Vatican Governorate, who is next to the Pontiff.
A hospital admission was not planned, on the eve of Palm Sunday and the celebrations of Holy Week, the most important moment of the year. The first communiqué from the Holy See, issued this afternoon, spoke of “pre-scheduled controls.”
At this point, you will most likely spend the night in the hospital. For them, staff and Vatican security men have been notified to spend the night in the center.
The Pope had already been admitted to the Gemelli hospital in 2021, but then the Vatican statement immediately spoke of a “scheduled operation”, the removal of part of the colon due to diverticular stenosis: he was hospitalized for eleven days.
About twenty days ago, in statements to Swiss television, Francisco, 86, said he felt in good health, when asked how he was feeling after ten years of pontificate: “I am old. I have less physical resistance, although the injury of the knee is healing well.”
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