The Pontiff is encouraged to greet the faithful gathered in the hospital before receiving the discharge
Francisco returns to Sant Marta by car and with nasal cannulas
With a tired voice and in a wheelchair, Pope Francis has greeted this Sunday since his window at the Gemelli hospital in Rome to the dozens of people who have gathered expectant. It has been the first appearance of the Pope after 38 days admitted, something that the Holy Father wanted to do “as a gesture to thank To all the hospital people, ”explained the spokesman for the Holy See, Matteo Bruni.
“Thank you all,” said Pope Francis from the balcony, who has made a special mention to “the lady of yellow flowers”, since he knows that he has attended the hospital recurrently. On February 14, Francisco arrived at the Gemelli with a polymicrobial infection that resulted in a bilateral pneumonia.
After greeting to the faithful, the Pope has abandoned the polyclinic. He has done it in a Fiat 500 and with nasal cannulas.
The decision to discharge from Hospital has been taken since it is in conditions stable for two weeks. But he returns home with the prescription of continuing for a long time pharmacological therapy and maintaining a long period of convalescence.
Therefore, Francisco may not immediately resume its normal activity. They await at least two months of convalescence, Until the end of May, but already outside the hospital, at Casa Santa Marta, where in any case there is an emergency team 24 hours a day.
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