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Pope leaves hospital after five weeks
Pope Francis was discharged from hospital Sunday after more than five weeks being treated for pneumonia, waving to crowds gathered and thanking everyone for their support before heading for home.
“Thank you, everyone”, a weak-sounding Francis said into a microphone, as he waved his hands from his lap, occasionally lifting one to wave in the air and doing an occasional thumbs-up sign.
“I can see that woman with yellow flowers, well done”, he said with a small smile, to laughter from the crowd.
Francis was on the balcony for two minutes before being discharged from the hospital immediately afterwards.
He left by car, waving from the closed window of the front seat as he drove past journalists, and could be seen wearing a cannula – a plastic tube tucked into his nostrils which delivers oxygen.
The pope was driven past the Vatican and on to Santa Maria Maggiore, the Rome church which is his favourite and where he stops to pray before and after trips.
He was then seen arriving back at the Vatican.
Doctors have said that his health has improved sufficiently for him to go home, but that Francis, who had part of one lung removed as a young man and lost weight in hospital, still faces a long recovery of at least two months.
The increasingly fragile state of Francis’s health has spurred speculation as to whether he could opt to step down and make way for a successor, as his predecessor Benedict XVI had done
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