Doctors reveal the Pope's latest condition amid extended hospital staySource: Reuters
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00:00The reason that we are here, because it's one week that he's in the hospital,
00:04and so he asked us, myself and Dr. Luigi Carbone, to give you some information.
00:11Of course, he is in critical condition.
00:13That means that one patient of 80 years old with chronic Lyme disease,
00:18and you have some infection, virus, mycitis, and bacteria.
00:24He's in critical condition, but he's fine now.
00:28How extensive is the permanent damage to his lungs,
00:31and how much does having lost part of his lung as a young man complicate your work, his condition?
00:39I'm also curious if you could tell us how many different, you said a number of different drugs,
00:44how many different drugs is he taking?
00:47Okay, the extension of the lung is not a lot, but you know, it's bilateral.
00:53That's the problem.
00:54You remember, maybe, if you know the story of the Pope, that in one lung he has half a lung,
01:01because in the youth he has surgery for the lung.
01:05And how many drugs?
01:07You have drugs for virus, drugs for bacteria, and drugs for mycitis, and different drugs a lot.
01:14And this problem also makes diabetes.
01:22He has not diabetes, but due to this condition he has diabetes.
01:25So he has also drugs for diabetes.
01:27Then he has drugs for his chronic lung disease.
01:31It's a lot.
01:33But we hope that he comes back to Santa Marta only with the drugs that Dr. Luigi Carboni
01:38with Massimiliano Strapetti gives him every day, no more.
01:42But today a lot.