Pope Francis’s medical team has announced that after five weeks of hospitalisation and two brushes with death, he will be discharged today, but must continue to rest and undergo his various therapies at home.
Speaking to journalists during a March 22 press conference, Italian doctor Sergio Alfieri, director of the medical surgical department of Rome’s Gemelli Hospital and head of the Pope’s medical team there, said: “The good news is that the Holy Father is being discharged.”
“The Holy Father will return to Santa Marta,” he said, referring to the Pope’s residence in the Vatican’s Saint Marta guesthouse.
