Pope ‘stable’ after yesterday’s respiratory failure, Vatican says

Pope Francis remained stable after being exposed to two episodes of the respiratory failure on Monday.

In his night update, the Vatican said that the Pope did not provide any other episodes of the failure of the respiratory system or the bronchial spasm.

The statement said: “He remained upside down, always on alert, cooperated with treatments and directed about well,” the statement said.

The 88 -year -old Pope has been in hospital since mid -February being treated for pneumonia.

After the two episodes, the Pope started using the oxygen mask and ventilation to help breathe.

The Vatican said this is the second time that mechanical intervention has been used, after spending two days on the artificial respiratory system in the wake of a “isolated” breathing crisis that includes vomiting on Friday.

On Tuesday’s update, the Apostolic Chair said that Pope Francis had returned to the treatment of high flow oxygen.

He added that during the day he alternated in prayer and comfort this morning, he received the Eucharist.

Pope Francis is scheduled to miss a procession and the Mass on Wednesday, which represents the first day of the big fasting, a six -week period leading to Easter.

He was unable to give Angelos prayer in person every day every day.

The Pope was accepted to the hospital on February 14th After trying breathing difficulties for several days.

He was first treated for bronchitis before diagnosing pneumonia in each of the lungs.

The ink is especially vulnerable to pneumonia, which is an infection of the lungs that can be caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi, after contracting two western – inflammation in the lungs – when he was young and had a partial lung removal.

Sources of the Vatican stress, as they did all the time, that the Pope’s condition remains complicated – his doctors are still cautious – and it is not dangerous.