Francisco celebrates this Thursday 28 days admitted, which turns his stay into the Gemelli Hospital of Rome in the second longest of a Pope and equals that of John Paul II in the same center in 1994, when he underwent surgery to repair the joint of the right hip after fracturing the right femur in a fall.
John Paul II has been the pontiff who has been hospitalized for the most days, when he also spent 55 days in the Gemelli in 1981 for a cytomegalovirus after an operation.
Francisco entered on February 14 due to respiratory problems and subsequently discovered bilateral pneumonia that has caused several respiratory crises, with bronchospasm, so he continues to need the supply of oxygen to high flows by nasal cannulas and mechanical ventilation with a mask at night.
Doctors have not manifested about how many more days the Pope hospitalized will have to be.
Before the latter hospitalization, Francisco entered GEMELLI three times: 10 days (from July 4 to 14, 2021) for an operation in the colon, 3 days (from March 29 to April 1, 2023) for pneumonia and 9 days (from June 7 to 16, 2023) for abdominal surgery to repair an abdominal hernia.
Francisco and Juan Pablo II have been the only pontiffs who have been treated in the Gemelli, since Benedict XVI was never hospitalized and only visited his brother admitted to the polyclinic.
Prior to them, the pontiffs, in case of illness, had always been treated within the Vatican and Pius XII, for example, died in the residence of Castelgandolfo.
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Pope hospitalizations
It was Juan Pablo II the first to enter this great hospital in the northwest area of Rome, about 5 kilometers from the Vatican and that made him the Pope’s hospital. It was the dramatic day of May 13, 1981 when he entered emergency after receiving the shots of Turkish terrorist Ali Agca.
Pope Wojtyla arrived in ambulance and was immediately transferred to the operating room, where the surgeon Francesco Crucitti saved his life at the end of a complex surgical operation and twenty days later he returned to the Vatican.
From that episode, an apartment was reserved on the 10th floor of the hospital dedicated only to the pontiff, which has two rooms and a chapel.
But the greatest hospitalization of the Polish Pope was the 55 days he spent in the Gemelli in 1981, when he underwent minor surgery and subsequently received treatment due to a cytomegalovirus infection.
Then, Juan Pablo II was hospitalized nine times more in the Gemelli, with a total of 153 days.
Therefore, once, in 1996, he even joked by saying: “The Vatican one is in the Plaza de San Pedro, Vatican two is in Castelgandolfo, Vatican three has become the Gemelli polyclinic.”
On July 11, 1992, during the Dominical Angelus prayer in the Plaza de San Pedro, the Pope, in an unusual gesture in the modern history of the Pontificate, announced that that same afternoon was going to be admitted again to the Gemeli. The doctors subjected the Pope to a long surgical intervention to remove a benign tumor in the colon and spent 14 days admitted.
The last hospitalization of Wojtyla, which lasted 18 days, was in March 2005, when it was already inexorably weakened by Parkinson. Juan Pablo II returned to the Vatican to die in his apartment, attended by the doctors of the Gemelli, on the afternoon of April 2.
With EFE information.
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