He returned to the Gemeli hospital Pope Francis to be subjected to emergency surgerya day after the exams he took.

As reported by “La Stampa”, the pope will undergo surgery to prevent an intestinal obstructiona risk that the doctors diagnosed in the results of yesterday’s tests.

In particular, they feared a possible complication at the point where she was operated on in 2021 for diverticulitis.

According to “La Stampa” sources, the problem is linked to age and excess weight. In the place where he was operated on two years ago due to diverticulitis, hernias have formed with the risk of obstruction. For this you need an additional operation, and the process may be long.

Pope Francis’ abdominal pains had flared up so much in the last period that yesterday it was necessary to undergo tests at the hospital, from which the risk of obstruction arose.

The Vatican announcement

The Vatican in a statement by the director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni, states:

“The Holy Father went to the Gemeli University Hospital where in the early afternoon he will undergo a laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with prostheses under general anesthesia.

The operation, arranged in recent days by the medical team assisting the Holy Father, was necessitated by an incarcerated incision causing recurrent, painful and worsening hypo-obstructive syndromes.

The hospital stay will last several days to allow for the normal postoperative course and full functional recovery.”