Italian media reports that Pope Francis spent around 40 minutes at a Gemelli department specialized in treating elderly patients.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis went to Rome’s Gemelli hospital for a brief check-up on Tuesday, June 6, and has returned to the Vatican, the Holy See’s press office said in a statement.
Francis, who is 86 and has suffered a number of ailments in recent years, spent five days in the same hospital at the end of March with a lung infection and last month skipped audiences on one day due to a fever. The Pope, who marked the 10th anniversary of his pontificate in March, often uses a wheelchair or a cane to walk because of persistent knee pain.
The pontiff is also missing part of one lung, which was removed when he was a young man in his native Argentina.
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