The Vatican City: Pope Francis, 84, continues to recover and will return home “as soon as possible” from the hospital after surgery in her intestine, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
“The Holy Father continues its planned care and rehabilitation, which will allow him to return to the Vatican as soon as possible,” said Matteo Bruni spokesman.
The Pope was treated at Gemelli Roma Hospital on July 4 after suffering from diverticulitis, inflammation of the bag that developed in the intestinal layer.
The Vatican initially said he would be in the hospital for about a week, and the Pope led Angelus’s prayer from the window of the hospital on Sunday.
On Monday, Bruni said he would stay for “a few more days”.
“Among the many patients he (Pope) has met in these days, he talks with special thoughts to those who lie in bed and cannot return home,” Bruni said on Tuesday.
Francis was in the same suite used by Pope John Paul II, who also guided Angelus’s prayer from there.
The Argentine Pope temporarily had a fever last week but chest and stomach scanning and other tests did not reveal no particular abnormality.