86-year-old Jorge Bergoglio consulted his doctor for severe pain in his chest. He immediately had him hospitalized.
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« Lbody responded well to treatment. Thank God I can tell you. Hospitalized the week before Easter, Pope Francis revealed that he had suffered from “acute pneumonia”. “I felt a strong pain at the end of the audience (of March 29), I did not lose consciousness”, confided the Argentine pope during a press conference on board the plane bringing him back of his visit to Budapest.
“I had a high fever and (…) the doctor immediately had me hospitalized”, he added, specifying that he had “acute and strong pneumonia, in the lower part of the lung”. “The body responded well to the treatment. Thank God I can tell you about it,” he added. The 86-year-old pope spent three days in hospital in Rome before being released on April 1 after a course of antibiotics.
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In his youth, at the age of 21, Jorge Bergoglio suffered from acute pleurisy and surgeons proceeded to partially remove his right lung.
This last health incident was the subject of a confused communication which fueled rumors around the pope’s health, the Vatican initially announcing that it was a hospitalization for scheduled examinations, before to indicate that the pope was suffering from bronchitis.
Asked about his next trips, François confirmed his intention to go to Lisbon at the beginning of August for the World Youth Days (WYD) then to Marseilles in September, as well as to Mongolia. ” The program [de voyages prévus] gets me moving,” he joked.
The health of Jorge Bergoglio, elected in 2013, seems increasingly fragile, in particular because of his knee pain which forces him to move around in a wheelchair.
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