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He said on Friday, January 12, 2024, that he had “a little bit of bronchitis” again and did not want to read the speech prepared for the reception of the French correspondent.
“I want to read the whole speech, but I have a problem, I have a bit of bronchitis”Francisco said that although his voice sounded tired, he had delivered the speech he had planned for the first two audiences of the day.
At the end of November 2023, Pope Francis suffers from ‘inflammation of the lungs’ This forced him to skip some events and cancel a planned trip to Dubai for the COP28 climate summit in early December.
The 87-year-old pope then underwent a CT scan (computed axial tomography) at a Rome hospital, which confirmed the health problems and started antibiotic treatment.
It took him several days to recover from the bronchitis. During this time, he was helped by a collaborator who read out his speech.
Since last year, the pope has suffered from various ailments due to aging and complex surgery for an abdominal hernia. The Catholic leader celebrated his 87th birthday at the Santa Marta Pharmacy, the Holy See’s pediatric center founded 100 years ago in 1922, in the presence of more than 200 families.
In April, he was hospitalized for three days with bronchitis and had to be treated with antibiotics. This was concerning because the pope arrived in an ambulance with symptoms of a fever.
In June, unexpectedly, due to adhesions during colon diverticulum surgery in July 2021, he had to undergo abdominal hernia surgery again and was hospitalized for 9 days.