About 70 people, including the management and staff of the Roman polyclinic, the Catholic University and the Directorate of Health and Hygiene from the City of the Vatican, were received by François this Wednesday morning April 16, for about twenty minutes near the Paul VI room. The Pope sent their thanks for the care and assistance received to them, ensuring each of his prayers, then praised them individually.
Salvatore Cernuzio – Vatican City
“Thank you for your service in the hospital, very good, continue to do a good job». A little less than a month after his exit from the Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis wanted to receive the polyclinic community which welcomed him for 38 days during his hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia. While continuing his convalescence in Sainte-Marthe and has not yet resumed his public activities, with the exception of appearances on Saint-Pierre square and in the basilica, François wished to organize a collective moment with those who, during his illness, assisted and cared for him.
-Thanks for care and assistance
About 70 people, including the management and staff of the Romain hospital, who welcomed the Argentinian Pope four times, were received this morning, shortly before 11 am, in the rooms behind the Paul VI room. Also present were representatives of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the Department of Health and Hygiene of the State of the City of the Vatican, who attended him during his stay in hospital in February and March.
It is to them that Pope Francis, whose voice is recovered thanks to respiratory physiotherapy which continues in parallel with motor therapy, sent words of thanks to all, ensuring each of his prayer, and asking for him for himself. Before the Pope, it was the chairman of the board of directors of the Gemelli Foundation, Daniele Franco, who delivered a speech of greetings and wishes for Easter and the restoration of his health. One by one, François praised the people present, starting with the university rector, Elena Beccalli. The meeting lasted about 20 minutes.
The traveling at twins
As of March 23, the famous Sunday he left the hospital, Pope Francis wanted to briefly greet, in the morning, the staff and the management of the university and the hospital, as well as the medical team that had treated him. All had then followed the sovereign pontiff, around noon, on the forecourt of the polyclinic, mixing with the 3,000 people gathered to greet the bishop of Rome. Among them, many patients. It is precisely them, writes the rector of the university in a note, “Which are reflected in the suffering that Pope Francis wanted to share and not hide, confirming the deep humanity which distinguishes all his magisterium”. «If indeed the church is called to be a country hospital, as Pope Francis said, the polyclinic Gemelli and the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery attached to him can only rejoice at having been able to make their own contribution to the recovery of the Holy Father“Said the rector, thanking the doctors and the nurses who”expressed their professionalism, their dedication and their humanity in an exemplary way, as a sign of this vocation to care passionately described by Pope Francis himself ”.
