Pope Francis, 86 years old, “is fine”, “conscious” and even “played” after the operation he underwent this Wednesday (7) for a hernia in the abdomen, announced the surgeon who performed the operation.
This “benign” operation, decided on Tuesday, will have no consequences, and Jorge Bergoglio does not suffer from any other pathology, Professor Sergio Alfieri declared at a press conference at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.
Earlier, the Vatican announced that the operation was completed without complications after three hours.
“The intervention ended: it was boring and lasted three hours”the Vatican press service said in a brief statement.
According to sources quoted by the Italian news agency ANSA, the pope’s surgical procedure, under general anesthesia, was a laparotomy with plastic surgery of the abdominal wall performed laparoscopically to repair a hernia that had formed on an old abdominal scar and threatened to lead to obstruction. gut.
At the Roman hospital, Bergoglio was operated on by the team of clinician and academic Sergio Alfieri, who operated on him two years ago.
The pope will now have to stay in hospital for a few days. Therefore, the prefecture of the papal household previously announced that its “special and general audiences until June 18 for health reasons” would be canceled.
Source: DN
