VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis spent the night time and not using a respiration masks, the Vatican press workplace mentioned March 18, indicating that his want for supplemental oxygen continues to decrease.Â
The pope acquired high-flow oxygen by a nasal tube in a single day, it mentioned, a change from the noninvasive mechanical air flow he had been utilizing since he had a respiration disaster Feb. 28. He has been hospitalized since Feb. 14.
The choice to forgo in a single day mechanical air flow aligns with a medical plan to “progressively cut back” the 88-year-old pope’s supplemental oxygen consumption, the press workplace mentioned, although it doesn’t imply he’ll not use it at night time.
Pope Francis has been alternating between high-flow and normal-flow oxygen throughout the day, and medical doctors had already been decreasing the variety of hours he makes use of mechanical air flow at night time. Throughout temporary durations, the pope might go with out supplemental oxygen fully, the press workplace had mentioned the day gone by.
A photograph launched by the Vatican March 16 confirmed the pope and not using a nasal tube.
On March 18, the pope devoted himself to prayer, work actions and remedy prescribed by his medical doctors, the press workplace mentioned. He continues to observe a prescribed food regimen that “additionally consists of stable meals,” it added.
Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, a church court docket, was scheduled to guide the recitation of the rosary in St. Peter’s Sq. for the pope’s well being.
Whereas the Vatican has given no indication of when the pope is perhaps launched from the hospital, Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla confirmed that they plan to fulfill with Pope Francis in early April.
The British Embassy to the Holy See launched Buckingham Palace’s itinerary for the royals’ state go to March 18, which incorporates an viewers with Pope Francis April 8.
