The recovery protocol that awaits the Pope in the Vatican: two months of “high protection”

The image and the sound today in all the media are that of the pope’s greeting from a balcony of the Gemelli clinic after receiving the discharge and give with a very weak voice thanks to all those who were waiting for him …

The Pope’s return to the Vatican, after 38 days admitted to the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome for a serious respiratory infection, marks a new phase in his pontificate, in which Francisco, thus fond of the proximity of the faithful and exhaustive worker, You have to change many habits.

New stadium in your recovery

This new stage, which will not be an exempt from “surprises”, according to the Argentine cardinal, Víctor Manuel Fernández, very close to the Pope and has also denied that the Pontiff thinks of giving up, Will begin with at least two months of “protected convales”In the words of your reference doctor in the Vatican, Luigi Carbone.

At that time, the 88 -year -old pontiff and who during his hospitalization suffered two crises in which “his life was in danger”, You will have to continue with the pharmacological treatment and motor and respiratory therapiesYou have to continue using oxygen and also save rest, away from close contact with people.

The decision of the doctors comes later Two weeks of stable improvement, Practically since the doctors raised the reserved diagnosis when they considered that their life was no longer an “imminent danger” and after two serious crises that were put on the verge of death.

Also The fact that the recovery will need time and in the hospital is a high risk of infection, Much bigger than in his residence and Francisco’s intense desire to return to the Vatican, considering that there was a risk that a longer stay would help him.

“He is very happy (…) he asked” when he leaves, when he revealed in the press conference in which the high coal was announced on Saturday, which will take care of the “protected convalescence” that Francisco will continue in his residence of the House of Santa Marta.

The Vatican is equipped for emergencies, as Carbone recalled, but now the important thing is that the Pope limits his meetings, in particular with groups and children, but not only: he must also avoid meetings with collaborators, friends and faithful beyond what is necessary.

This seems the greatest risk given the nature of the pontiff, whose imprint known as “the Francisco style”, reappeared today, when, on the Vatican way, the delegation led by the usefulness in which the Pope was traveling, with nasal cannulas to receive oxygen, changed the path.

In an unexpected movement, the group was deflected to pass for the first time through the church of Santa María La Mayor, which houses the icon “Salus Populi Romani”, of which Francisco is very devoted and that always visits after his travels, on a tour of the roads of the center of Rome, which was broadcast live on the Italian public television Rai.

Anyway, The Church seems to prepare to take on “another way of being a dad”, in the words of Cardinal Anders Arborelius, Archbishop of Stockholm and member of several dicasteries of the Roman Curia.

“After such a disease, Francisco will not be able to travel, he will not be able to participate in many meetings. It will be rather a pope in prayer, he will lead a more hidden, silent life. He will have to be less communicative, but he will focus on the most important things: his words will have more weight”, says in the newspapers “Repubblica.”

For Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, vice -president of Cardenalicio College, “perhaps Francisco cannot receive people for some time, or at least he must reduce the public. But he can always receive roles and documents from all over the world. And continue to govern the Church”, according to the “Corriere della Sera”.

In any case, everything will depend on the recovery that starts this Sunday. In the twins, Francisco was an “exemplary patient” and “followed all advice”, according to doctors. Now we will have to see if it is still in the Vatican.

In the mood of the Pope, 88 years old, he is not yet renouncing his position while making his predecessor Benedict XVI.