The pontiff spent over five weeks being treated for bronchitis that evolved into a severe respiratory illness. When he returns to the Vatican, he will need to rest for two months, his doctor said.
Pope Francis will leave the hospital on Sunday, his medical team said.
After spending more than five weeks in the hospital, doctors said that his life-threatening respiratory illness was successfully treated, and that he will require two months of rest and care at the Vatican.
Francis, 88, was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14 with a severe respiratory infection that caused pneumonia in both lungs.
«Today, we are happy to say that tomorrow he will be at home», Sergio Alfieri, the hospital’s head of medicine and surgery, told journalists on Saturday night.
