VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis went to a Rome healthcare facility for scheduled surgical procedure for a stenosis, or restriction, of the big intestine, the Vatican claimed Sunday.
The transient announcement from the Holy See’s push business office did not say precisely when the surgical procedure would be carried out but claimed there would be an announcement when it was full.
Just 3 hours before, Pope Francis, 84 a long time old, had cheerfully greeted the community in St. Peter’s Sq. in retaining with a Sunday tradition and told them he would go to Hungary and Slovakia in September.
A 7 days before, the pope had utilised the similar look to check with the community for specific prayers for himself, which, in hindsight might have been hinting at the prepared surgical procedure at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic, a Catholic training healthcare facility.
The Vatican claimed the pope had been identified with “symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon,” a reference to a narrowing in the big intestine. The surgical procedure was to be carried out by Sergio Alfieri, the director of Gemelli’s digestive-surgical procedure division.
