Pope improves
NZPA-Reuter Rome Doctors say Pope John Paul is recovering from a chest infection which put him back in hospital a month after he was shot in an assassination attempt. An unexpected Vatican statement, based on doctors' reports, scotched rumours that his condition had worsened by saying he suffered from a’ mild chest infection which was clearing up. “The Pope, who showed signs of a pleuro-pulmonary inflammation in . the right lung cavity during the past week, is getting better," a
Vatican spokesman, the ,Rev. Romeo Panciroli, said. The medical director of the Gemelli Hospital, where the Pope was readmitted on Saturday, said the infection was not very serious. "Tests showed there' was something at the level of the pleura (the membrane surrounding the lungs) but it could not strictly speaking be called pleurisy. It's something very slight,” Dr Emilio Tresalti said. ‘ “The fever has subsided and his temperature is only a little higher than normal.” He added: “The general condition of the Pontiff is also improving."
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