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The Vatican says Pope Francis has been admitted to a Rome hospital for abdominal surgery after developing a hernia linked to a 2021 operation

The pope underwent "a laparotomy and abdominal wall surgery under general anesthesia" on Wednesday, the Holy See's official news portal says. The pope had complained of abdominal pain on Tuesday.

The 86-year old pontiff is at a hospital in Rome for the second time in weeks.

Pope Francis, 86, will have surgery on his abdomen at Rome's Gemelli hospital, the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday.


ROME: Pope Francis will undergo an operation for an abdominal hernia at a Rome hospital, where he is expected to stay for “several days”, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

The operation comes two years after a flare up and narrowing of the large intestine meant that Pope Francis, 86, needed to have 13 inches of his colon removed at a hospital in Rome's Gemelli Hospital

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