Pope ‘well-rested’ after respiratory failure, Vatican says happymamay

The Vatican said that Pope Francis was getting well ignored and woke up after 8:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Wednesday.

Church officials said the Pope spent tonight in “non -surgical mechanical ventilation.”

The update comes after the Vatican said on Tuesday evening that the Pope was stable after being subjected to two episodes of the respiratory failure on Monday. A statement on Tuesday said that Pope Francis “remained”, is always alert, and he cooperated with treatments and directed about about a good.

The 88 -year -old Pope has been in hospital since mid -February, and has been undergoing 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.

During the day, the rotation of prayer and comfort. He added this on Tuesday 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, an infection of the lungs that bacteria, viruses or fungi can cause, after contracting the pleura – lung inflammation – when he was a young man 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.