Pope Francis has made a quick trip to the hospital for tests.
A view of the Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome,Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Pope Francis has made a quick trip to the hospital for tests Tuesday. The visit comes more than two months after he was hospitalized with an acute case of bronchitis. – Pope Francis briefly went to a hospital on Tuesday for tests and returned to the Vatican, witnesses and news reports said, two months after he was hospitalized with an acute case of bronchitis.
Francis, 86, spent three days at Rome’s Gemelli hospital in late March. Initially, the Vatican said he had gone in for scheduled tests, but the pontiff later revealed he had felt pain in his chest and was rushed to the hospital where bronchitis was diagnosed. He was put on intravenous antibiotics and was released April 1, quipping that he wasThe Argentine pope had part of one lung removed when he was a young man.
In a sign that the trips were very much on, the Vatican on Tuesday released the planned itinerary for Francis' visit to Portugal for World Youth Day events from Aug. 2-6. The itinerary confirms a typically busy schedule that includes all the protocol meetings of an official state visit plus multiple events with young people and a day trip to the Marian shrine at Fatima.
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