Papa Francis shows “gradual, slight improvement” in the middle of a double pneumonia treatment

Papa Francis It suits well for treatment and showed “gradually, a slight improvement,” the Vatican said, on Saturday, because he remains in a double pneumony hospital.

The 88-year-old pope, which has a chronic lung disease and had a part of a single lungs removed as a young man, remained stable, without fever and good blood oxygen levels, the doctors reported in the Vatican statement. However, they said he was a protected forecast, which means he is not yet out of danger.

The doctors said that such stability “testifies to a good response to therapy” as a consequence. This is the first time that the doctors reported Francis who positively responds to the treatment for a complex lung infection diagnosed after hospitalized 14. February.

Pontif was working and rested during the day on Saturday, because he entered his fourth week in the hospital in the hospital in Rome with his stabilization following several of the acute respiratory crises last week.

“In order for this initial improvements to record in the coming days, his doctors maintained him ruthlessly forecasting as he kept”, said the statement.

Francis uses high flows of additional oxygen to help him breathe throughout the day and a non-invasive mechanical ventilation mask at night.

Thursday night, Francis’s voice was I heard the public for the first time Since he was admitted to the hospital. The message was recorded from the Papena room in Gemelli Polylinty Hospital in Rome, played those who prayed for him in Svetog Peter Square on the Vatican.

“I thank you from my heart for your prayers for my health from the square,” he said in the message.

If Francis could talk to recording the message was an encouraging sign, but his fragile could be heard in the recording. Francis’s voice sounded weak and breathless.