Holy See reports “improvements” in recent days, which indicates that Pontiff may soon be able to leave the hospital.
Pope Francis responds well to hospital treatment for double pneumonia and his doctors no longer fear for his life, says the Vatican.
The Vatican added on Monday that the 88 -year -old pontiff’s state was “stable” with doctors raising their previous prognosis for “kept”, indicating that he is now out of danger and could soon leave the hospital.
Francis has been at the Gemelli University Hospital for over three weeks. It was admitted on February 14 with a severe respiratory infection which required evolutionary treatment.
The Pope’s doctors said they had recorded “improvements” on previous days, which had been “consolidated” by “blood tests and clinical assessments, as well as a good response to his drug treatments,” the Vatican said.
He added that doctors expected Francis “continuing the treatment of medicine medicines in a hospital for other days”.
An exact time for the Pope’s discharge has not been provided.
Francis had been under the prognosis “kept”, which means that he was not by imminent danger, for most of his stay in the hospital.
The Pope was described as being in a stable condition or improving last week after two crises of “acute respiratory failure” on March 3.
The Vatican declared earlier on Monday that Francis continued his treatment and suffered respiratory physiotherapy to help breathe.
The pontiff, who has used a wheelchair in recent years due to knee and back pain, has also continued with physical therapy to help in mobility, he said.
Francis receives oxygen at the hospital, using a small oxygen hose under his nose during the day and non -invasive mechanical ventilation at night while he sleeps.
The Pope has experienced several episodes of poor health in the past two years and is subject to pulmonary infections because he had pleurisy as a young adult and had part of a lung removed.
Double pneumonia is a serious infection in the two lungs that can ignite them and scars, which makes breathing difficult.
The head of Catholics of nearly 1.4 billion Catholics in the world worked in the hospital and following the news when possible, including fatal floods that hit his homeland from Argentina.
