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    Pope Francis to leave hospital on Friday: Vatican

    Synopsis

    Pope Francis, 86, will be discharged on Friday from the Rome hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery last week, the Vatican said. Francis spent the morning Thursday thanking the doctors and nurses who have looked after him during his stay.

    Pope Francis is hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli HospitalReuters
    Pope Francis is hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Hospital.
    Pope Francis, 86, will be discharged on Friday from the Rome hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery last week, the Vatican said.

    "The medical team that is following Pope Francis has confirmed the Holy Father's discharge" from Rome's Gemelli hospital for Friday, it said in a statement Thursday.

    Francis spent the morning Thursday thanking the doctors and nurses who have looked after him during his stay.

    He did the rounds in a wheelchair, according to photographs released by the Vatican, and visited children in the paediatric oncology and child neurosurgery department.

    Francis underwent a three-hour operation at the Gemelli hospital on June 7.

    The pope, who had colon surgery in 2021, had been suffering from a hernia on the site of a scar from a previous surgery.

    He was placed under general anaesthesia and the abdominal wall was repaired with a surgical mesh.

    All papal audiences have been cancelled until June 18 to give the pontiff time to recover.
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