Pope Francis leaves Rome hospital 9 days after surgery

Pope Francis on Friday was discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring, with his surgeon saying the pontiff is now “better than before” the hospitalization.

Francis, 86, left through Gemelli Polyclinic’s main exit in a wheelchair, smiling and waving and saying “thanks” to a crowd of well-wishers, then stood up so he could get into the small Vatican car awaiting him.

In the brief distance before he could reach the white Fiat 500, reporters thrust microphones practically at his face, and the pontiff seemed to bat them away, good-naturedly.

“The pope is well. He’s better than before,” Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the surgeon who did the three-hour operation on June 7 told reporters as the pope was driven away.

Pope Francis greets people on the day of his discharge from Gemelli hospital in Rome, Italy, on June 16, 2023.
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Pope Francis leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, Friday, June 16, 2023,
Pope Francis leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, on June 16, 2023.
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Pope Francis, escorted by  Vatican Security Chief, Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti (L), waves as he leaves after being discharged from the Gemelli hospital in Rome on June 16, 2023,
Pope Francis, escorted by Vatican Security Chief, Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti (L), waves as he leaves after being discharged from the Gemelli hospital in Rome on June 16, 2023.
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Hours after the surgery, Alfieri said that the scarring, which had resulted from previous abdominal surgeries, had been increasingly causing the pope pain.

There was also risk of an intestinal blockage, if adhesions, or scar tissue, weren’t removed, according to the doctors.

No complications occurred during the surgery or while the pope was convalescing in Gemelli’s 10th-floor apartment reserved exclusively for hospitalization of pontiffs, according to the pope’s medical staff.

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