Pope Francis has had a profitable operation to restore a hernia in his stomach wall.

The Vatican mentioned there have been no problems after the three-hour surgical procedure, throughout which the 86-year-old was beneath basic anaesthesia.

The pontiff is anticipated to stay at Rome's Gemelli hospital for a number of days.

While hernia operations are not often carried out on an emergency foundation, the process appeared considerably pressing, scheduled simply a day after Francis went to the hospital for tests.

His docs are additionally believed to have wished to present him ample time for restoration forward of a busy journey schedule later this summer time.

The pope was affected by a "painful and worsening" hernia that fashioned over a earlier scar, presumably from his 2021 colon surgical procedure.

Francis went to the hospital for beforehand unannounced exams on Tuesday, returned to the Vatican and presided over his viewers on Wednesday morning, however then went straight to Gemelli for the process afterward.

The Pope spent three days in hospital with a respiratory infection in March - joking "I'm still alive!" when he was discharged - and final month needed to skip audiences due to a fever.

Two years in the past, he additionally had 33cm (13 inches) of his colon eliminated due to an irritation and narrowing of the big gut.

He can also be lacking a part of one lung, which was eliminated when he was a younger man in Argentina, and infrequently makes use of a cane to stroll on account of knee ache.