The Vatican Pope Francis says bilateral pneumonia

Pope Francis The Vatican announced on Tuesday that developed bilateral pneumonia A health setback For 88 -year -old youth.

The new diagnosis comes, which means that pneumonia in both lungs, while Francis receives treatment at Rome Hospital, where it was accepted on Friday. It has already been diagnosed Bronchitis. On Monday, the Vatican said that the ink was suffering from a multi -mysterious infection in the respiratory system and that the tests conducted on Francis were “an indication of a complex clinical image that requires sufficient stay in the hospital.”

The Vatican said in a statement on Tuesday that pneumonia will require drug therapy. The Vatican said this disease was discovered after Francis underwent a chest examination on Tuesday afternoon.

According to the statement, Francis was in a good mood and spent today rest, prayer and reading.

The Vatican said that Francis was grateful to the “rapprochement he felt at this moment” and asked people to pray for him.

This hospital is the fourth for the Pope. In 2023, he was subjected Abdominal surgery It receives a treatment for pneumonia Earlier that year.

When Francis was a young man in his original country in Argentina, he had a part of the lung that was removed after a pulmonary infection, which left him vulnerable to respiratory diseases.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Vatican canceled an audience that is scheduled to have Francis on Saturday and announced that he would not celebrate Sunday in Saint Peter Basilica.

The hospital continues to enter the Pope slightly more than two weeks before the annual Christian celebration of the loan. The Lenin period begins for 40 days on the ashes on Wednesday, which will decrease this year on March 5.

Last year, during the week that preceded Easter known as the Holy Week, Francis did not attend a procession in the Colosseum Rome on the Great Friday to maintain his health, and later led the Pope tens of thousands in Easter celebrations.

He contributed to this report.