(3 Mar 2025)
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Vatican City – 3 March 2025
1. St. Peter’s Basilica
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press:
“The Vatican is reporting another setback in Pope Francis’ recovery from pneumonia. Doctors say he suffered two more respiratory crises today, and they had to put him back on the non-invasive mechanical ventilation. They also had to perform what’s called a bronchoscopy where they snaked a tube down into his airways, guided by a camera, to suction out the mucus and secretions that he’s not been able to cough out on his own. They speak of these episodes as in the past tense, meaning they are over, but they are still saying that his prognosis is guarded, meaning he is not out of danger.”
3. Various of St. Peter’s Basilica
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis suffered two new acute respiratory crises on Monday and was put back on noninvasive mechanical ventilation, in another setback to his battle to fight pneumonia, the Vatican said.
Doctors extracted “copious” amounts of mucus from his lungs during two bronchoscopies, in which a camera-tipped tube was sent down into his airways with a sucker at the tip to suction out fluid.
The Vatican said the mucus was his body’s reaction to the original pneumonia infection and not a new infection, given laboratory tests don’t indicate any new bacteria.
Francis remained alert, oriented and cooperated with medical personnel.
The prognosis remained guarded.
Doctors didn’t say if he remained in stable condition, though they referred to the crises in the past tense, suggesting they were over.
The crises were a new setback in what has become a more than two-week battle by the 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed, to overcome a complex respiratory infection.
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