The surgery is considered urgent after the results of the CT scan he underwent on Tuesday and will take place after the bowel intervention in July 2021.
He Pope Francisco left the Vatican this Wednesday around 11:00 local time (09:00 GMT) to go to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where in the afternoon will be operated on under general anesthesia by laparotomy in the abdominal wall by a incarcerated scar fracture.
Francis, from 86 yearshas gone to the hospital in his usual vehicle and will have to stay, according to the Vatican hospitalized for several days for your recovery.
“At the end of the general audience, the pope will go to the university hospital, where he will be placed under surveillance in the early afternoon. anesthesia to a surgical procedure of laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with a prosthesis,” the Holy See said in a statement.
The Vatican has explained that “the operation, performed in recent days by the medical team assisting the pope, has become necessary due to an incarcerated hernia that causes recurrent, painful and aggravating subocclusive syndromes.”
The operation has been considered urgent after the results of the CT scan he underwent on Tuesday, which will occur after the bowel intervention in July 2021.
Source: EITB
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