Pope's health: optimism but not yet out of dangerPope's slow but steady improvementThe Pope has bilateral pneumonia and his condition remains "complex".Despite the slight improvements that the Holy Father had experienced on Thursday and Friday, this Saturday the pontiff's health again suffered a minor setback with a "prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis, which also required the application of high-flow oxygen."
This is what is reported in the medical report that the Holy See press office made public on the afternoon of Saturday, February 22. The note also states that "today's blood tests also showed plateletopenia", that is, a decrease of platelets in the blood, which in the case of the Holy Father is "associated with anemia and which required the administration of hemotransfusions".
The communiqué refers to to the press conference held by the Pope's doctors at the The Pope is not out of danger," the Vatican said yesterday at the Gemelli hospital. The Pope has spent "the day in an armchair, although with more pain than yesterday" and for the moment, "the prognosis is reserved," the Vatican note concludes.
Episcopal conferences, dioceses, congregations and colleges from all over the world are now joining in prayer for the recovery of the Holy Father, who will remain in the hospital for at least another week.
