Pope Francis discharged from hospital

Pope, who was taken to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on March 29 with a complaint of difficulty breathing, left the hospital today after three days of treatment. The Pope stopped his car outside the hospital and spoke with the people who were waiting for him and the journalists.

Thanking the journalists who waited for him while he was in the hospital, the Pope replied: “I am still alive.” he gave the answer. In a written statement from the Vatican, the administrative center of the Catholic Church, it is stated that the Pope left the Gemelli Hospital in the morning and went to the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, where he used to go to pray after his trips to Rome.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed his satisfaction with the Pope’s discharge in a written statement. Meanwhile, the Italian press wrote that the Pope will be present at the Easter Mass that the Catholic Christian world will celebrate next week, and it will be determined later if he will participate in other Easter rituals.

The Pope, who was taken to the hospital after the general admission session at the Vatican on March 29, was diagnosed with infectious bronchitis following tests carried out here and was treated with antibiotics.

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Pope Francis, who was elected as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church in 2013, has a lung due to an infection he had in his youth. The spiritual leader of Catholics has been attending events in a wheelchair for some time due to a knee injury.

Pope Francis last underwent a large intestine operation at the same hospital on July 4, 2021 and was under observation at the hospital for 10 days. The Pope, in statements to the ABC newspaper in Spain in December 2022, stated that he had his resignation letter ready in case he could not fulfill his duty for health reasons. (AA)