Pope Francis said he was “under the effects of anesthesia” by avoiding reading speech

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2023-06-23 00:57:15

Pope Francis has apologized for not reading his speech at a meeting due to the effects of anesthesia. Photo: EFE

Pope Francis apologized to the members de la Roaco (Meeting of the Construction of Help of the Eastern Churches) for not being able to read the speech that I had prepared. The Pontiff said that still is “under the influence of anesthesia” and cuesta breathe.

“I’m still under the effects of anesthesia and breathing It is not good”, he assured this June 22, 2023 Pope. At the same time, he improvised his words, after asking the prefect of the Dicastery for Eastern ChurchesClaudio Gugerotti, who surrender to those present the written text. This was reported by the Italian newspaper La Reppublica.

Francisco It came out last Friday, June 16, 2023 from the hospital Gemini, where he was admitted to undergo a operation of a hernia produced by a scar from a previous intervention.

He surgeon who operated on him, Sergio Alfieri, assured that from now on, the Pontiff you will be able to carry out all your commitments “with more force than before”.

The doctor also recommended that, even if you don’t have to be “bedridden”, be “careful with their efforts.” In fact, for advice doctor, the Pope did not preside on Wednesday June 21 at the traditional hearing general in which he pronounces a catechism before the faithful.

Pope’s travels

it is foreseen for the Pope to travel to Lisboa from August 2 to 6 for to participate in the World day of Youth and at the end of August, at Mongolia.

For the Pontiff’s doctor, if he makes a “convalescence careful” he will be able to make these trips in “better conditions” than those he had when he “had planned“. At that time he suffered from severe abdominal pain, publishes the Vatican.

“When the processes of healing finish, it will be better. And therefore for me he can do absolutely the trips. Then with his collaborators during this month and a half will try to balance the appointments between the ones that cannot be postponed and the most onerous“Alfieri said.

The Pope’s medical team advises him at least a month of convalescence “to ease your abdominal muscles a bit, so that you heal well and can resume all his commitments”.

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