Great concern in the Vatican: Pope suffers episodes acute breathing failure

Vatican City – The Pope experienced two more severe respiratory crises. The Vatican reports. His condition is extremely critical.

Pope Francis (88) suffered two episodes of acute breathing failure in the afternoon Vatican with. “Today the Holy Father had two seizures of acute respiratory insufficiency,” said the Vatican on Monday evening. The head of the Catholic Church has been around since mid -February With a pneumonia on both sides in the clinic.

From his environment it says that his condition is “fragile”: the worries are getting bigger!

Today the muscles of his respiratory tract had cramped, then two lung mirrors were carried out and plenty of secretions were sucked off. For this purpose, an endoscope is inserted over the mouth or nose and pushed into the bronchi.

The doctors do not make a forecast

In addition, the Pope was mechanically ventilated again, presumably by a breathing mask. The mucus collection in the bronchi was the reason for the respiratory crisis, his doctors said.

The treating team did not want to make a forecast.

After a serious attack on Friday, in which the Argentinian swallowed, the Pope had to be ventilated, at the weekend his condition was still “complex”, as it was said from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.

There is reserved for an infirmary on the 10th floor for the treatment of popes.

According to the Vatican side, the night was still good

On Monday morning, “Vaticannews” wrote that the night of the Pope went well that he had “rested well” all night. So Francis had breakfast after waking up and started with the therapies of the day.

Francis has been struggling with health problems for a long time. Already as a young man, part of the lungs was removed. He was elected Pope in 2013.

Gänswein also prays for Francis

Numerous believers pray on St. Peter’s Square every evening. General requests also come from abroad: the long -time confidante of Pope Benedict XVI, Georg Gänswein, told the newspaper “La Repubblica” that he prayed every day for the early and complete recovery. The German clergyman is currently a Vatican ambassador in the Baltic States. Their relationship was considered tense for a long time.