Pope not recovered, has message read out for him

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 16 - Pope Francis said Saturday he has not yet fully recovered form a recent cold, chesty cough and mild bout of the flu and so he had a Vatican official read out his message to members of the community of the Vatican-owned Rome children's hospital Bambino Gesù.
    Msgr Filippo Ciampanelli of the Secretariat of State read out his message for him.
    The message said "the logic of the gift is central to the work of the Bambino Gesù" and called for "science and the competence of treatment not to be the privilege of a few".
    He urged the community "go forward in this blessed work".
    Francis greeted some 200 young patients including some from Ukraine and Gaza. (ANSA).