Pope rests on the 10th day of the hospital stay after early stages of kidney failure

Rome (AP) – Pope Francis rested on Monday morning after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospital stay for a complex lung infection that provoked the early stages of kidney failure, said the Vatican.

The individual declaration did not say whether the 88-year-old Francis was woken up. “The night has passed well, the Pope slept and rests,” said it.

In the late Sunday, the doctors reported that blood tests showed early kidney failure that was still under control. They said Francis had remained in a critical condition, but he had not experienced any further respiratory crises since Saturday.

He received high currents with complementary oxygen and was vigilant, reaction quickly and visited the fair on Sunday. They said his forecast was guarded.

Doctors said that Francis' condition is touched in view of his age, fragility and his existing lung disease. They have warned that the main threat to Francis sepsis, is a serious infection of the blood that can occur as a complication of pneumonia.

So far there has been no indication of the beginning of sepsis in the medical updates of the Vatican, also on Sunday.

Monday is the 10th day of Francis in the hospital and corresponds to the longest hospital stay of his papacy. He spent 10 days in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome in 2021 after he had removed 33 centimeters from his large intestine.

In New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan admitted on Sunday which church leader in Rome did not say publicly: The Catholic believers were united “on the bed of a dying father”.

“How our holy father Pope Francis in very, very fragile health and probably death is” back. “

Franci's condition has revived speculation about what could happen if it becomes unconscious or is put out of action in other ways and whether it could resign.

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