Italian Prime Minister Meloni visits the Pope Francis in the hospital, he says he is in a good mood

Rome – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis at the hospital on Wednesday and said “warning and responsible” and full of good humor despite his pneumonia.

In the statement issued by her office, Meloni said, “We were joking as always. He didn’t lose his proverbial sense of humor.”

Her visit was marked by the first confirmed external visitor known to be invited to the Pope, outside his secretaries and the medical team, from his hospitalization on Friday.

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Papa Francis slept well, went out of bed and ate breakfast on Wednesday, the Vatican said, after tests confirmed 88-year-old Pontif pneumonia in both lungs In further complications that has placed concern for his ability to fight infection.

In an early update on Wednesday, Vatican said Francis calmly spends his heel night in the hospital in Rome. “He had a quiet night, woke up and breakfast,” Matteo Bruni said spokesman.

The Pope, which was the upper lobe of the right lung removed as a young man, was in a good mood and thankful prayers for his recovery, Bruni said.

On Wednesday, Francis’ Vicar for Rome invited all the believers to pay an hour of silent Pope prayer before evening and pilgrims that they planned to attend their weekly audience in St. Peter square to offer prayer canceled.

“I think many people are disappointed, but I think it’s even more important to really need to pray for his health,” said Sister Charlene, a nun from Singapore who was in the market.

Francis was admitted to Gemelli hospital on Friday after worning bronchitis in weeks. Monday medical personnel has determined that it suffered from a POLIMICROBILITY RESPIRATION ROAD INFECTIONWhich means a mixture of viruses, bacteria and possibly other organisms have colonized in their respiratory tract. Late Tuesdays, the Vatican said CT breast scan showed the beginning of bilateral pneumonia on the top of asthmatic bronchitis, which is treated with cortisone and antibiotics.

Bronchitis can lead to pneumonia, which is deeper and far more serious lung infection “air bags can develop partly or all of the lungs. It is more severe to have both lungs because there are no healthy tissues for compensation.

The treatment varies weight, but may include oxygen provision through the nasal tube or mask, intravenous liquid – and treatment of the basic causes of infection. To date, Francis breathes his and his heart function is said to be good. He had eaten breakfast every day, pulled out of bed, read the newspaper and did some work from his hospital room.

“Papa Francis is a strong man who does not allow difficulties,” he said he was Rev. Enzo Fortunato, leading the new Vatican Committee for Children. The fact that Francis is following his ordinary routine, including the acceptance of the Eucharist “, a sign of a man who wants to experience an ordinary way of disease in the hospital.”

The Vatican did not provide any information on how Francis reacts to any of the drugs given to him, which he was given except to say that he does not lead the fever. Argentine Pope, who previously admitted that the non-patient, has a number of conditions that make him particularly at risk for complications: except for his years, is not physically active and uses his ability to clean the liquids are being built in the lungs.

Dr. Meredith McCormack, director of lung and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University, said the doctors would see if Francis responded to therapy, which may involve physiotherapy to inject the pulmonary. Severe cases of pneumonia are usually treated in approximately one to two weeks, but recovery in a older person could expand beyond that.

“The lack of deterioration would be an encouraging sign,” McCormack said, which was not included in Francis care.

The Vatican did not give any indication of how long the Pope could remain hospitalized, only saying that the treatment of such “complex clinical images” would require an adequate “stay.

Despite the less than the positive news about Francisco, Francis received drawings and tickets from children treated in the oncology department in the hospital. And on Watipin, the Holy Year’s pilgrims continued on Wednesday, with groups of faithful walking through the holy door of St. Peter Basilica on a cold and cloudy day.

“We are very happy to be here, but we are also sad for Pope a disease,” Amparo Alcala said ‘, who led a large group of pilgrims from Valencia, Spain. “Most for women in the church, and this gives us a lot of joy. We pray for his recovery and that he can return, if this is God’s will.”

The group of southern Korean pilgrims in traditional bones planned to attend Francis weekly Wednesday general audiences and show their national dress, because pilgrims often work for the weekly meeting. When he was canceled, they came anyway.

“The Lunar New Year was very recent, so we also wanted to bend a traditional and formally in front of him,” said Junhee Christina Kim, Pilgrims from Seoul, South Korea. “It was too good to attach to talk in any case we could be in the Vatican in our traditional costumes.”

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AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng in London contributed to this report.

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