Pope gets new lightweight wheelchair

White leather chair made by firm at Frosinone

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Aug 11 2024
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Pope gets new lightweight whee

Pope Francis on Sunday got a new lightweight wheelchair built for him by an orthopaedic equipment company at Frosinone, between Rome and Naples.
    The new white leather wheelchair is extremely light, and adjustable, with low forks, made to specs by the Officine Ortopediche firm.
    "It took two months of constant work," said staff chief Claudio Territi "Eight of us worked on it, from the design to the construction.
    "It wasn't easy because we had to work to specific needs, considering the Holy Father's previous pathologies involving his lower limbs." Francis, 87, has suffered for years with a bad right knee and walks with a cane when he is not in his wheelchair.