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 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’.”
Francis was taken to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday, after a weeklong struggle with bronchitis worsened. […]
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