www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/complex-clinical-picture-pope-francis-has-his-hospitalization/
With his advanced age and frail health, Pope Francis is having a tough time navigating the Jubilee year of 2025.
It arises today (17) that his hospitalization had to be extended, for his respiratory tract infection is presenting a ‘complex clinical picture’.
Concerns are mounting about the increasingly delicate health condition of the 88-year-old pontiff.
*New York Post* <nypost.com/2025/02/17/world-news/pope-francis-respiratory-infection-is-presenting-a-complex-clinical-picture-as-worries-grow-over-pontiffs-health/> reported:
*“Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the results of tests conducted in recent days and Monday indicate the pope is suffering from a ‘polymicrobial respiratory tract infection’ that has necessitated a further change in his drug therapy. Scientists say polymicrobial diseases are caused by a mix of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites.*
*There was no timeframe given for his hospitalization, which has already sidelined him for longer than a 2023 hospitalization for pneumonia. Bruni said the complexity of his symptoms ‘will require an appropriate hospital stay’.”*
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For some time, now, Francis has alternated periods of poor health with others in much better shape – usually when he has international trips as a ‘head of state’.
Francis was taken to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday, after a weeklong struggle with bronchitis worsened.
He was said to be in ‘stable’ condition – but obviously, not stable enough to be released.
*“The Argentine pope, who had part of one lung removed after a pulmonary infection as a young man, is a known workaholic who keeps up a grueling pace despite his increasingly precarious health. He uses a wheelchair, walker or cane because of bad knees and suffers from sciatica nerve pain. In 2021 he had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed because of a narrowing, and then had a further surgery in 2023 to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair an abdominal hernia.”*
With his advanced age and frail health, Pope Francis is having a tough time navigating the Jubilee year of 2025.
It arises today (17) that his hospitalization had to be extended, for his respiratory tract infection is presenting a ‘complex clinical picture’.
Concerns are mounting about the increasingly delicate health condition of the 88-year-old pontiff.
*New York Post* <nypost.com/2025/02/17/world-news/pope-francis-respiratory-infection-is-presenting-a-complex-clinical-picture-as-worries-grow-over-pontiffs-health/> reported:
*“Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the results of tests conducted in recent days and Monday indicate the pope is suffering from a ‘polymicrobial respiratory tract infection’ that has necessitated a further change in his drug therapy. Scientists say polymicrobial diseases are caused by a mix of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites.*
*There was no timeframe given for his hospitalization, which has already sidelined him for longer than a 2023 hospitalization for pneumonia. Bruni said the complexity of his symptoms ‘will require an appropriate hospital stay’.”*
[image: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/pope-francis-funny-1200×630.jpg]
For some time, now, Francis has alternated periods of poor health with others in much better shape – usually when he has international trips as a ‘head of state’.
Francis was taken to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday, after a weeklong struggle with bronchitis worsened.
He was said to be in ‘stable’ condition – but obviously, not stable enough to be released.
*“The Argentine pope, who had part of one lung removed after a pulmonary infection as a young man, is a known workaholic who keeps up a grueling pace despite his increasingly precarious health. He uses a wheelchair, walker or cane because of bad knees and suffers from sciatica nerve pain. In 2021 he had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed because of a narrowing, and then had a further surgery in 2023 to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair an abdominal hernia.”*