Pope Francis is likely to remain hospitalised for at least another week as Holy Year celebrations continue in the Vatican
The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the Pope on Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection that doctors say remains touch and go and will keep him in hospital for at least another week.
"He is not out of danger," said his personal doctor, Dr Luigi Carbone. "So like all fragile patients I say they are always on the golden scale. In other words, it takes very little to become unbalanced." Dr Sergio Alfieri, the head of medicine and surgery at Rome's Gemelli hospital, said the biggest threat facing Francis was that some of the germs that are currently located in his respiratory system pass into the bloodstream, causing sepsis. Sepsis can lead to organ failure and death.
"Look, even though he's not here, we know he's here," said Luis Arnaldo Lopez Quirindongo, a deacon from Ponce, Puerto Rico, who was at the Vatican on Saturday for the Jubilee celebration. He's recovering, but he's in our hearts and is accompanying us because our prayers and his go together."
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