Vatican carries out Holy Year celebrations without pope as he remains in hospital with pneumonia
Francis slept well overnight, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a brief early update on Saturday. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/Getty Imageson Saturday as he 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.
As of Friday, there was no evidence of any sepsis, and Francis was responding to the various drugs he is taking, the pope’s medical team said in their first in-depth update on the pope’s condition.“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 Carbone, who along with Francis’s personal nurse Massimiliano Strappetti, organised care for him at the Vatican, acknowledged he had insisted on staying at the Vatican to work, even after he was sick, “because of institutional and private commitments”. 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.
This weekend, Francis was supposed to have celebrated deacons, a ministry in the church that precedes ordination to the priesthood.
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