Despite a final “peaceful night”, Pope Francis is in a stationary state and his prognosis remains “reserved”. The 88 -year -old sovereign pontiff is constantly assisted by respiratory aid.
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- The Vatican announced this Monday, March 10 in its traditional health bulletin that Pope Francis spent a “peaceful and rests”. The sovereign pontiff “follows a diet adapted to his condition, which includes solid food, and he keeps informed of the news,” said yesterday. He follows his respiratory and motor therapy as well as his physiotherapy.
- Before deciding on a possible evolution of the prognosis of the 88 -year -old Jesuit, doctors wish to see the same positive results “in the coming days”. As a reminder, he was admitted to the Gemilli Hospital in Rome on February 14 after a bilateral polymicrobial pulmonary infection which was added to chronic bronchitis.
- Today, the Pope’s prognosis remains “reserved”. He has already made four episodes of respiratory failure, including two consecutive on Monday, March 3. Crises that could reproduce and worsen the state of the Holy Father. The Pope is constantly assisted by respiratory aid. It is placed under high speed oxygen therapy during the day and under non -invasive mechanical ventilation at night. The sovereign pontiff also follows respiratory and motor physiotherapy.
- After more than three weeks of hospitalization, the stationary state of Pope Francis is not a new so reassuring. Last Thursday, he had sent a message to the faithful the Chevrotante path: “Thank you with all my heart for the prayers you do for my health”, testifying to a rather disturbing weakness.
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09:14 – Doctors expect results “in the coming days”
If the state of Pope Francis is stable, he continues to worry the doctors. This is why, the latter want to see the same positive results “in the coming days”, to decide on a potential evolution of his prognosis which remains “reserved”. “This Sunday evening, after high speed oxygenation using nasal cannulas during the day, the Pope will return to non -invasive mechanical ventilation as expected,” said the Vatican.
In his traditional brief morning press release, the Vatican announced this Monday, March 10 that Pope Francis spent a “peaceful and rests”. “The pope follows a diet adapted to his state and which includes solid food, and he is informed of the news,” we learned this weekend. A new health bulletin will be published at the end of the day.
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03/09/25 – 09:29 – A new “calm night” for the pope
The Vatican communicated on the state of health of the Sovereign Pontiff on Sunday morning. He spent a “calm night” and feels slightly better.
On Saturday evening, the Holy See press room assured that “the clinical state of the Holy Father in recent days has remained stable”, that there is “a good answer to therapy” and “a progressive and light improvement”.
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The state of health of Pope Francis has been stable for several days, and this is still the case this Monday, March 10, 2025. He spent a “peaceful night and rests” specifies the Vatican. Before deciding on a possible evolution of the prognosis of the 88 -year -old Jesuit, doctors wish to see the same positive results “in the coming days”. An exit not really reassuring after now more than three weeks of hospitalization.
Last week, the sovereign pontiff had spoke for the first time since his hospitalization. In a chevant and not really reassuring voice, he addressed the faithful: “Thank you with all my heart for the prayers you make for my health from the place (Saint-Pierre de Rome), I accompany you by”, explained the sovereign pontiff. “May God bless you and the Virgin takes care of you,” he continued. “The complexity of the clinical picture and the necessary wait for pharmacological therapies to require the requirement to remain reserved on the prognosis,” said his health bulletin.
Pope Francis has been hospitalized for more than three weeks, but he has been sick for longer. What has been announced as bronchitis has become pneumonia affecting the two lungs. In detail, the Vatican indicates that “polymicrobial infection, which has declared itself against the backdrop of bronchitasis and asthmatic bronchitis, and which required the use of antibiotic therapy based on cortisone, makes therapeutic treatment more complex”. As a reminder, Saturday, February 22, the Pope was also the victim of an breathing asthmatic crisis. He then needed a broadband oxygen supply, as well as blood transfusion.
Pope Francis’s fragile health
Caution remains in view of the fragile health of Pope Francis, 88 years old. Especially since a long hospitalization is not without risk as Margherita de Talle de Torrere sulra indicated on Wednesday: “The most dreaded danger is sepsis, the passage of microorganisms in the blood which propagate to other organs, with very serious consequences”. The Italian newspaper also revealed that the sovereign pontiff should observe two to three weeks of “absolute rest”. In France, the deputy editor-in-chief of the cross and former correspondent to the Vatican, Loup Besmond de Senneville, is also worried about the view of the communication of the Holy See on RTL: “If the Vatican evokes a worrying, complex clinical picture, with words that report real problems, it is clearly the most serious and most concern communications that we have ever seen on hospitalization of Pope Francis”.
In recent years, the octogenarian has multiplied hospitalizations and operations, some of which had been hidden by religious authorities before being revealed by Italian media. The health concerns of the Pope, who appeared, very weakened had then aroused great concern. After consecutive and rather important medical problems, between 2021 and 2023, Pope Francis seems to have escaped new big health problems in recent months. The new hospitalization of the Pope at the beginning of 2025 is worrying, the state of the Pope is to be monitored: in people over 75, acute bronchitis can justify increased medical surveillance, especially when symptoms and inflammation persist beyond 10 days.