VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis went Sunday to a Rome healthcare facility for set up surgical treatment for a stenosis, or limitation, of the big intestinal tract, the Vatican stated.
The short statement from the Holy See’s press workplace didn’t state precisely when the surgical treatment would be carried out however stated there would be a statement when the surgical treatment is total.
Just 3 hours previously, Francis had actually cheerfully welcomed the general public in St. Peter’s Square in keeping with a Sunday custom and informed them he will go to Hungary and Slovakia in September.
A week previously, Francis, 84, had actually utilized the exact same look to ask the general public for unique prayers for himself, which, in hindsight may have been meaning the prepared surgical treatment at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic.
The Vatican stated the pope had actually been identified with “symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon,” a referral to a constricting in the big intestinal tract.
Francis remains in usually health, however did have part of one lung eliminated as a boy. He likewise struggles with sciatica, periodically having unpleasant bouts of the condition that includes a nerve impacting the lower back and leg.
Gemelli physicians have actually carried out surgical treatment prior to on papal clients, consisting of on Pope John Paul II, who had a benign growth in his colon eliminated in 1992.
