Pope Francis, who was admitted to hospital last week, has developed pneumonia in both of his lungs, the Vatican said Tuesday, adding that the 88-year-old was in "good spirits". "The laboratory tests, chest X-ray, and the Holy Father's clinical condition continue to present a complex picture", the Vatican said in a statement.
Francis was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital last Friday for bronchitis, but the Vatican on Monday said it was changing his treatment following tests.
It said Tuesday that a "polymicrobial infection" which has come on top of "bronchiectasis and asthmatic bronchitis, and which required the use of cortisone antibiotic therapy, makes therapeutic treatment more complex". "The follow-up chest CT scan which the Holy Father underwent this afternoon...
demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia, which required additional drug therapy," it said.
