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The last minutes of Pope Francis' life is described by his surgeon, revealing both the two secret interventions he had undergone.
Doctor Sergio Alfieri is head of the Gemelli Hospital Digestive Surgery Team in Rome and the coordinator of the Pontiff Medical Team. And today, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, he narrates the last minutes of Pope Francis' life.
Alfieri tells when he last saw the Pope. "On Saturday after lunch, on Easter. And I can say it was very good, he told me. I brought him a tart as he liked and we chatted for a while. "I'm very good. I started working again and I'm ready for it." I knew that the next day would give Urbi et Orbi and we agreed to meet on Monday, ”the doctor describes.
'He wanted to do some things before he died'
Ten days ago, Pontiff had asked him a meeting with "all the people who had been treated in Gemelli".
"I told him that he was 70 people and that it might be better to do it after Easter after he was fully ascended. His answer was clear: "I'll meet them on Wednesday." I feel like he felt he had to do a series of things before he died, ”he points out to Corriere.
The last moments of Pope Francis
He then tells what happened on Easter Monday when he died: “At about 5:30 am I received a phone call from Pope Francis' personal nurse, Strapetti: "The Holy Father is very ill, we have to go back to Gemelli." I warned everyone and 20 minutes later I was there in Santa Martha, but it seemed difficult to think that hospitalization was necessary. "
And he goes on: "I entered his room and his eyes were open. I found that he had no respiratory problems. I shouted his name but he didn't answer. It did not respond to stimuli, even painful. At that moment I realized that I could do nothing else. He was in a coma. "
'He wanted to die in his house'
As the doctor explains, the hospital transfer would be useless. "We would risk dying in the transfer and explained that hospital hospitalization would be useless. Strapeti knew that the Pope wanted to die at home, always saying it while he was hospitalized in Gemelli. He died a little later. I stayed there with Masimilianos, Andrea, the other nurses and the secretaries - everyone arrived and Cardinal Parolin asked us to pray. I felt privileged and I can now say I was. That morning I gave him a caress as the last goodbye, "he says.
The two secret interventions
The surgeon then explained that he met Bergolio in 2018. He was like a parish priest, he made the preaching and in the end he came out of the church and greet everyone, one by one. Two years later he began to feel sick in the stomach, had very severe abdominal pain and his quality of life, with all his professional obligations, was not the best. "
The diagnosis was acute diverticulitis. "One day Stavi brought me the computed tomography. Perhaps the Pope was informed that I had the greatest experience in Italy in colon and rectum surgery and chose to operate him, ”explains Vittorio Alfieri.
And he continued: "Then it was that the Pope told me" I decided to surgery and chose you. " I visited him and felt all the responsibility. "Let's look at the program. Where will I be operated on?" he told me. I had the clear feeling that he wanted to go anywhere, in any hospital I decided, but I replied, this time very decisively, that if he wanted to be operated on by me, there was no choice than Gemelli. He agreed, but on his own terms. "I will come on Sunday after the operation. No one should know.
The official version
Doctors managed to keep the secret. "The official version was that there was a leader of another state who wanted the highest possible confidentiality. He clarified that any decision in his place should be taken by Stavi. And then something happened that I can only reveal now. " And he explained: "A few minutes before the surgery, Strapeti told me that the Pope wanted to see me. I went to his room and blessed my hands. It was an incredible emotion, the meaning of which I only understood later. He wanted to tell me "to use your hands for your job, but to use your hands with your heart in the coming years." As if he wanted to say "you are a Catholic, but now you have something more". It was a secret among the three of us, he wanted to be known and now I can say it. "
Shortly afterwards, Pope Francis underwent a second intervention, and again secret. "After the first intervention, when he went home, he tried to clarify the importance of public health and the importance of preserving Catholic hospitals with a specific mission. He proved this by returning to Gemelli, "the doctor concludes.
Source: iefimerida.gr
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