{"id":189267,"date":"2023-11-27T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=189267"},"modified":"2023-11-27T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T13:08:38","slug":"pope-given-antibiotics-intravenously-to-treat-lung-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/pope-given-antibiotics-intravenously-to-treat-lung-inflammation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope given antibiotics intravenously to treat lung inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pope Francis, 86, is given antibiotics intravenously to treat lung inflammation after suffering breathing difficulties and will limit his activities in latest episode of poor health<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The 86-year-old pontiff has suffered a string of health issues in recent years<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation and will scale back some appointments in his latest episode of poor health.<\/p>\n<p>Francis, 86, revealed on Sunday that he was suffering from the inflammation problem, explaining why he did not keep his weekly window appointment to greet people in St Peter&#8217;s Square.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he gave his blessing from the chapel of the hotel on Vatican grounds where he lives.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican press office director, Matteo Bruni, said in a written statement on Monday that the inflammation was causing some respiratory difficulties for Francis, whose birthday is next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The condition of the Pope is good and stationary, he doesn&#8217;t have a fever, and the respiratory situation is in clear improvement,&#8217; Bruni said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/12\/78277067-12795581-image-a-2_1701087693677.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis giving the Angelus prayer from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta, at the Vatican City on Sunday. An IV drip can be seen on his right hand<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To facilitate the pope&#8217;s recovery, some important engagements that were scheduled for these days have been postponed so that he can dedicate his time and energy (to recovery)&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Bruni added that Francis would continue to carry out &#8216;easier&#8217;, institutional tasks, his condition permitting.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0How Pope Francis has battled health problems over the years<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/12\/69291993-12795581-Pope_Francis_waves_as_he_arrives_on_wheelchair_during_the_audien-a-1_1701088829940.jpg\" height=\"183\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>A wheelchair-bound Pope Francis pictured at the Vatican, on May 5, 2022<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican later said the pope went ahead with a planned audience for the president of Paraguay, Santiago Pe\u00c3\u00b1a Palacios, at the Vatican guest house where the pope lives in a suite of rooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Audiences for heads of state normally take place in the Apostolic Palace, a separate building on the Vatican grounds<\/p>\n<p>One part of one of the pope&#8217;s lungs was removed when Francis was a young man in his native Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Francis is due to travel to Dubai on Friday to attend the U.N. climate change conference. Bruni&#8217;s statement did not mention the trip, apparently indicating that it was still on.<\/p>\n<p>For his weekly blessing and message on Sunday, Francis appeared seated in the chapel of his residence instead of in St. Peter&#8217;s Square, while an aide read the pontiff&#8217;s message.<\/p>\n<p>When he raised his right hand a bandage holding an IV tube used to administer the antibiotics was visible.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month Francis skipped reading a prepared speech for a meeting with European rabbis because he had a cold, but he appeared to be in good health during a meeting with children hours later that day.<\/p>\n<p>In June he had surgery on an abdominal hernia, spending nine days in hospital. He appears to have recovered fully from that operation.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12795581\/Pope-Francis-86-given-antibiotics-intravenously-treat-lung-inflammation-suffering-breathing-difficulties-limit-activities-latest-episode-poor-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, 86, is given antibiotics intravenously to treat lung inflammation after suffering breathing difficulties and will limit his activities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope given antibiotics intravenously to treat lung inflammation - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/pope-given-antibiotics-intravenously-to-treat-lung-inflammation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope given antibiotics intravenously to treat lung inflammation - 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