Health Staff Celebrate Pope with Cake and Candles on Election Anniversary

Rome: Health staff at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Thursday celebrated Pope Francis with a cake and candles on the 28th day of his treatment for double pneumonia and the 12th anniversary of his election to the papacy. “The Pope also followed the Roman Curia’s spiritual exercises in the afternoon via connection, he was able to pray and continued his respiratory physiotherapy,” said the Holy See Press Office.

According to Ansa News Agency, the health personnel accompanying him during these days of hospitalization decided to celebrate him with a cake and candles. Furthermore, non-invasive mechanical ventilation continues at night and high-flow oxygenation during the day, the Vatican press office said.

“A new medical bulletin is expected tomorrow, which was not issued today.” Vatican sources also reiterated that “it takes time for an eighty-year-old affected by bilateral pneumonia to recover.”

“The stationary situation is also due to this, even if the positive fact is that the body is recovering: doctors know this, as they know that the clinical picture remains complex, and they are waiting for different indicators to record improvements and provide information of a different type, in addition to that which they provide day by day.”