Ailing Pope Francis is entering his fifth week in the hospital, battling double pneumonia and a seemingly resolved bout of ‘mild’ kidney failure.
Now, one of his closest advisers, the controversial Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, has made the distressing revelation about the future of the slowly improving Holy Father.
Reuters reported:
“Pope Francis is slowly regaining his strength in hospital but must “relearn to speak” after prolonged use of high-flow oxygen therapy, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said on Friday.”
In the beginning of his hospitalization, the Pope was working from his room, before his health took a turn for the worse.
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Cardinal Fernandez, head of Vatican’s Holly Office, was firm in dismissing speculation that Francis would be about to retire, saying he was ‘returning to his old self’.
“’The pope is doing very well, but high-flow oxygen dries everything out. He needs to relearn how to speak, but his overall physical condition is as it was before’, Fernandez said at a presentation of a new book by Francis on poetry.
[…] In its latest health update released on Friday, the Vatican said the pope’s condition remained stable with ‘minor improvements in breathing and mobility’.”
Francis has had multiple breathing crises in these 5 weeks.
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Francis hasn’t needed mechanical ventilation since Monday.
So far, no one knows when the Pope might return home, or if he will be discharged before Easter, on April 20.
“’He could return, but the doctors want to be 100% sure because he believes that with the little time he has left, he wants to dedicate himself entirely to others, not to himself’, Fernandez said.
Asked if he thought Francis might step down, the cardinal said: ‘I really don’t think so, no’.”
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