{"id":13449,"date":"2025-02-23T21:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diigital.press\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T21:01:57","slug":"pope-francis-is-in-critical-health-condition-vatican-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/pope-francis-is-in-critical-health-condition-vatican-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis is in critical health condition, Vatican says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Pope Francis is in critical condition after suffering a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1735575\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The pontiff required high flows of oxygen and also received a blood transfusion after tests showed conditions associated with anemia, the Vatican said in a statement late Saturday. He isn\u2019t out of danger.<\/p>\n<p>While Francis was in more pain than the day before, he remains alert and spent the day in his armchair, according to the statement. At the moment, the prognosis is \u201creserved,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement signaled an apparent setback in the 88-year-old pontiff\u2019s weeklong battle with pneumonia.\u00a0Doctors\u00a0said on Friday the pope\u2019s condition poses no immediate threat to his life, though he remains at risk, adding that he will remain hospitalized for at least another week.<\/p>\n<p>Francis was hospitalized after what doctors called an increasingly complex health issue. The Vatican said he was suffering from pneumonia in both lungs and that medical staff had altered his drug regimen to battle the infection.<\/p>\n<p>Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Francis has been the spiritual leader of the world\u2019s Roman Catholics since 2013. He\u2019s the first pope from the Americas and the first non-European pontiff since the 8th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is in critical condition after suffering a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis Saturday morning. The pontiff required high flows of oxygen and also received a blood transfusion after tests showed conditions associated with anemia, the Vatican said in a statement late Saturday. He isn\u2019t out of danger. While Francis was in more pain than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}