Franjo, 88-year-old Pope, is on treatment at the Gemelli Hospital, where it was received on 14. February after breathing hard for several days.
The “clinical condition of the Pope is stable,” stands in a short Vatican statement.
“Blood tests … show mild progress, especially in inflammatory markers.”
Double sided pneumonia is a serious infection that can cause inflammation and scars on both pulmonary wings and make it difficult to breathe.
Franjo visited the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni yesterday, who said “awake and talked” and joking with her.
“He didn’t lose his own proverbial sense of humor,” Melona said, the first Pope’s visitors in the hospital.
Anonymous Vatican official said earlier that Franjo is breathing independently and that he managed to get out of bed and sit into the armchair in his hospital room and continued to perform some jobs.
All Pope’s public engagements were canceled until Sunday. There are no further official events in the Vatican published calendar.
In front of the hospital, today people left flowers and personal messages under the statue of Ivan Paul II., Wishing Franji a speedy recovery.
The work of the Vatican continues and while the Pope is in the hospital. The High Official, Cardinal Michael Czerny, traveled on Wednesday at a five-day visit to Lebanon.
The main Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, returned to Rome today, as planned, from the trip to Burkina Faso.
(Vijesti.ba / Hina)
