Pope Francis has gone to Rome's Gemelli hospital for a check-up. Earlier this year the pope, 86, spent five days in hospital with a lung infection and last month had to skip audiences due to a fever.

Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital’s center for the elderly for a visit on Tuesday, according to Italian media reports. Italian news agency ANSA reported that Pope Francis spent around 40 minutes at Gemelli Hospital before returning to his Vatican residence shortly before 12:00 p.

A view of the Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome,Tuesday,. Pope Francis has made a quick trip to the hospital for tests Tuesday. The visit comes more than two m

Pope Francis was admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Tuesday, June 6, for a medical check-up, according to the Italian news agency Ansa

Pope Francis briefly went to a hospital on Tuesday for tests and returned to the Vatican, witnesses and news reports said, two months after he was hospitalized with an acute case of bronchitis. The ANSA news agency said Francis went to Rome's Gemelli hospital Tuesday morning for tests.

Pope Francis went to Rome's Gemelli hospital for a brief check-up on Tuesday and has returned to the Vatican, the Holy See's press office said in a statement.

Witnesses say pontiff – treated for bronchitis two months ago – later greeted guards on return to Vatican