Pope Francis at the Gemelli, returned to the tenth floor apartment

Pope Francis has been taken back to his apartment on the tenth floor of the Gemelli hospital. This is what ANSA has learned from sources close to the Pope.

According to what was previously learned by ANSA, the surgery took place under general anesthesia to carry out a laparotomy and abdominal wall surgery with prosthetics. He was operated on by the team of Professor Sergio Alfieri who had already operated on him two years ago. The pope’s audiences have been canceled until 18 June.

The Pontiff entered the Gemelli through the main entrance, greeted by a small crowd of journalists and onlookers.

Pope Francis, the arrival at the Gemelli

“The operation, coordinated in recent days by the medical team assisting the Holy Father, became necessary due to a incarcerated incisional hernia which is causing recurrent, painful and worsening sub-occlusive syndromes. The stay at the health facility will last several days to allow for the normal post-operative course and full functional recovery”, said the director of the Press Office of the Holy SeeMatthew Bruni.

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“Your Holiness, in view of your hospitalization at the Gemelli Polyclinic I would like to send you my best wishes for the positive outcome of the operation you will undergo this afternoon. The whole Italian people are close to you with feelings of affection and solidarity, which I fully accept At this moment, as well as on the prayers of the Catholic faithful, you can count on the sympathetic thoughts of countless people, believers and non-believers. I renew to Your Holiness my most sincere wishes for a peaceful convalescence, and a speedy and complete recovery”. She writes it Sergio Mattarella in a message to the Pope.

Here is the hernia from which Pope Francis suffers

“You have seen the press release, I believe there are no more words to add. We follow it with our affection – so Cardinal Pietro Parolin replied to journalists on the Pope’s state of health -, we follow him with our prayers, hoping that everything will be resolved as soon as possible and that he will return to the exercise of his ministry”. When asked if he was worried, he replied: “I don’t know what to say because I have no elements to say one way or the other. It seemed to me that the press release was trying to say things in a very technical way, which perhaps isn’t even that easy to understand, but to give the elements that allow us to frame the problem”.

The surgeon Alfieri will operate on the Pope, it is the second time.

Source: Ansa

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