{"id":30378,"date":"2023-03-29T19:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=30378"},"modified":"2023-03-29T19:10:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:10:47","slug":"pope-francis-hospitalised-with-lung-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/03\/29\/pope-francis-hospitalised-with-lung-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis hospitalised with Lung infection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pope Francis was hospitalized with a lung infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in the hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 86-year-old pope doesn\u2019t have COVID-19, spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement late Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hospitalization was the first since Francis spent 10 days at the Gemelli in July 2021 to have 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It immediately raised questions about Francis\u2019 overall health, and his ability to celebrate the busy Holy Week events that are due to begin this weekend with Palm Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruni said Francis had been suffering breathing troubles in recent days and went to the Gemelli hospital for tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe tests showed a respiratory infection (COVID-19 infection excluded) that will require some days of medical therapy,\u201d Bruni\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis appeared in relatively good form during his regularly scheduled general audience earlier Wednesday, though he grimaced strongly while getting in and out of the \u201cpopemobile.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis had part of one lung removed when he was a young man due to\u00a0a respiratory infection<\/strong>, and he often speaks in a whisper. But he got through the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic without at least any public word of ever testing positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis had been due to celebrate Palm Sunday this weekend, kicking off the Vatican\u2019s Holy Week observances: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil and finally Easter Sunday on April 9. He has canceled all audiences through Friday, but it wasn\u2019t clear whether he could keep the Holy Week plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis has used a wheelchair<\/strong> for over a year due to strained ligaments in his right knee and a small knee fracture. He has said the injury was healing and been walking more with a cane of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis also has said he resisted having surgery for the knee problems because he didn\u2019t respond well to general anesthesia during the 2021 intestinal surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said soon after the surgery that he had recovered fully and could eat normally. But in\u00a0a Jan. 24 interview<\/strong>\u00a0with The Associated Press, Francis said his diverticulosis, or bulges in the intestinal wall, had \u201creturned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pope Francis was hospitalized with a lung infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in the hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said. The 86-year-old pope doesn\u2019t have COVID-19, spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement late Wednesday. The hospitalization was the first since Francis spent 10 days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6609,5222,5200,5756,12634,6825,9995,11294,11493,5205,11973,5485,7296,1062,10722,9210,8206,8107,12790,10028,3954,5140],"class_list":["post-30378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-catholic","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-easter","tag-health","tag-hospital","tag-hospitalized","tag-injury","tag-interview","tag-july","tag-one","tag-pandemic","tag-pope","tag-pope-francis","tag-removed","tag-surgery","tag-treatment","tag-vatican","tag-weekend","tag-wheelchair","tag-will","tag-young"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}