Well-wishers leave flowers, candles outside hospital amid Pope Francis’ health crisis | VOA News @VOANews
Well-wishers leave flowers, candles outside hospital amid Pope Francis’ health crisis | VOA News  @VOANews
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The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis suffered two new episodes of “acute respiratory insufficiency,” with a prognosis that “remains guarded.”

The pope’s condition is the result of “a significant accumulation of endobronchial mucus and consequent bronchospasm,” the Vatican said in a statement.

The Vatican said Francis, 88, underwent two bronchoscopies to remove the mucus and later resumed the use of noninvasive mechanical ventilation. He remains “alert, oriented and cooperative at all times,” the Vatican added.

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