Pope Francis has thanked healthcare workers for their work, in a Christmas interview on Friday.
The 85-year-old head of the Catholic Church told the Italian newspapers — La Stampa and La Repubblica — that “we often do not recognise the greatness of the daily work of these doctors, nurses and health workers, and instead we should all be grateful to each of them.”
He also said he was thinking of the sick children who had to spend the feast in hospital.
At the beginning of July, Francis spent 10 days in a clinic in Rome after an intestinal operation.
A nurse saved his life at that time, he told the Spanish radio station Cope a few weeks later.
The operation has meant he has not been so confident taking trips out of the Vatican, but he said he hoped to continue travelling in 2022. (DPA)
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