After being hospitalized on June 7 for abdominal surgery, Pope Francis' doctor recommended that he spend an extra week recovering.<\/p>\n
DR. SERGIO ALFIERI The Pope has spent the time resting and healing. The Vatican cancelled all his public activities until June 18. But Pope Francis has not been completely inactive. <\/p>\n He spent one morning visiting patients in the Pediatric Cancer and Children's Neurosurgery departments in Rome's Gemelli Hospital.<\/p>\n Some children sent the Pope a message, wishing him a quick recovery.<\/p>\n We'll see you soon! Bye Pope Francis!<\/em><\/p>\n The Vatican has confirmed that the Pope will be discharged from the hospital on the morning of June 16.<\/p>\n KG<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pope spent one morning greeting children and other cancer patients in Rome's Gemelli Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DBEV4jAdEM8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapavisitapazientieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapavisitapazientiint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Generally for this surgery it takes 5-7 days in the hospital. Let's keep in mind that we operated on the Pope, an 86-year-old man, who has already undergone 4 surgeries, who was recently recovered from a pulmonary infection. And so clearly we would take all precautions.<\/em><\/p>\n