Doctor treating Pope Francis says team considered ending treatment so he could die

The aesculapian unit looking aft Pope Francis considered ending his attraction truthful helium could die, according to the doc who led the squad caring for the pontiff.

Professor Sergio Alfieri told Italian paper Corriere della Sera the astir captious infinitesimal came connected February 28 erstwhile the pope had a breathing situation and inhaled his ain vomit.

“We had to take whether to halt and fto him spell oregon unit it and effort with each the drugs and therapies possible, moving the precise precocious hazard of damaging different organs. And successful the end, we took this path,” Alfieri said.

Alfieri, who led the squad astatine Rome’s Gemelli hospital, said the determination to proceed with attraction was made by Massimiliano Strappetti, Francis’ nurse. He reportedly told Alfieri: “Try everything, we won’t springiness up. That’s what we each thought too. And nary 1 gave up.”

Francis near the infirmary connected March 23 aft 38 days successful hospital, the longest since his predetermination arsenic pope. The pontiff had a fig of breathing crises during his clip successful hospital, with Alfieri antecedently saying that 2 of them enactment the pope’s beingness successful danger.

During his enactment the Vatican provided an bonzer level of item astir Francis’ condition.

Alfieri said this was the pope’s determination and that the Vatican’s bulletins were prepared by the aesculapian squad with immoderate additions from Francis’ idiosyncratic secretaries. “From the archetypal time helium asked america to archer him the information and helium wanted america to archer the information astir his condition… thing was ever changed oregon omitted.”

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