Pope Francis remained in critical condition on February 24 but showed signs of improvement slightly through tests, AP quoted Vatican information.
According to the Vatican City, Pope Francis has continued to do a number of things, including calling a parish in Gaza City, where the papists have been in contact since the conflict broke out.
In the February 24 update, doctors said that Giaop. Francis no longer had respiratory failure since February 22 but continued to take supplemented oxygen, but the flow and concentration of oxygen had decreased slightly. According to doctors, the papist's mild kidney failure discovered on February 23 is not a cause for concern.
The popes performed the ceremony in the morning of February 24 and returned to work in the afternoon. In the evening, the Pope called the patriarch of Gaza to express the closeness of a Fathers grace, the Vatican statement said.
For more than a year, Pope Francis has been in daily contact via video call with Argentine friar Gabriel Romanelli - the head of the Catholic community at the church, which has been a shelter for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict.
The Vatican said that Pope Francis is still healthy, painless and does not have to take artificial nutrition.
The 88-year-old papal suffered from pneumonia in both lungs and is being treated at Gemelli Hospital in Rome. The Argentine papal had to have part of his lung removed as a young man.
Pope Francis was hospitalized on February 14. Doctors said the cardinal's condition was critical due to his age, poor health and lung disease.
This was the hospital stay for the longest time that Pope Francis had held since taking office. In 2021, the cardinal treated for 10 days at Gemelli Hospital in Rome after having 33 cm of colon removed.
