“Today we are happy to say that tomorrow he will be at home,” pontiff’s doctor says, adding that Francis will next have “rest period of at least two months”
Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital Sunday following a five-week stay battling chronic lung disease, the pontiff’s doctors announced Saturday.
The pope was first admitted to a Rome hospital on Feb. 14 and diagnosed with double pneumonia, but the situation escalated a week later to the point where Francis was in critical condition following an “asthmatic respiratory crisis.”
In the month since, the 88-year-old pontiff has steadily recovered at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, with his condition stable enough to allow for a planned release on Sunday.
“The Holy Father will be discharged from tomorrow in stable clinical condition with a prescription to partially continue drug…
