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Pope Francis was hospitalized for an incisional hernia Wednesday morning and will undergo same-day major surgery under general anesthesia, the Vatican revealed.
In a communication to journalists, Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, said Wednesday that the 86-year-old pontiff had been taken directly to Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital following his weekly general audience, where in the early afternoon he will undergo “a surgical operation of laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with prostheses under general anesthesia.”
The operation became necessary “due to an incarcerated incisional hernia that is causing recurring, painful and worsening sub-occlusive syndromes,” Bruni said.
