VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV will on Saturday (Oct 17) go away the Rome hospital the place he has been recovering from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican mentioned, after medical doctors deemed him “match for discharge”.
Leo, 71, has been on the Gemelli hospital north of the Vatican since Tuesday, the place medical doctors eliminated a part of his proper lung to extract a cancerous tumour.
“Contemplating the blood checks, the chest X-ray completed this morning, and evaluating the scientific image, the Holy Father has been deemed match for discharge,” wrote medical doctors Luigi Carbone and Stefano Margaritora in a word revealed by the Vatican.
The Vatican confirmed that “Pope Leo XIV can be discharged right this moment from the Gemelli Polyclinic”.
“He’ll go away the hospital within the early afternoon and return to the Vatican. Tomorrow he’ll recite the Angelus prayer from the window of the papal residence,” the Vatican mentioned.
The Angelus prayer is often given by the pope from the window of the Apostolic Palace, however in previous years, former popes John Paul II and Francis equally hospitalised on the Gemelli have delivered the prayer from the window of their hospital rooms.
