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Leon XIV Will Travel to Peru with an Ambulance Helicopter After His Lung Operation

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Next week, an advance commission from the Vatican will arrive in Peru to finalize the details planned for the visit of the pontiff.

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Peru will prepare hospitals and a medicated helicopter for Leon XIV's visit in November, following his lung cancer operation.

·Monterrey, Mexico
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Next week, an advance commission from the Vatican will arrive in Peru to finalize the details planned for the visit of the pontiff.

·Guayaquil, Ecuador
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The most delicate point of the tour is in the northern Peruvian Andes where it will arrive in a helicopter with the cabin without pressurizing

·Madrid, Spain
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Pope Leo XIV in Peru: Due to the medical unforeseen, the most delicate moment of the route planned for Leon XIV in Peru is in Santa Cruz de Succhabamba, in the north of the Peruvian Andes, 2,000 meters above sea level, and to which the pontiff will arrive in a helicopter whose cabin is not pressurized. In this sense, the secretary of the Archbishopric of Lima pointed out that it has been planned to transfer an ambulance equipped with medical ass…

The recent operation to which Pope Leo XIV was subjected, in which lung cancer was detected and the lower lobe of the right lung was removed, has forced extreme precautions to be taken for his visit to Peru scheduled for November, including a helicopter of the Peruvian Air Force [...] The entry The Pope will have in Peru an ambulance helicopter for possible emergencies in his visit was first published in Information Focus.

Juan Bytton, from the Archdiocese of Lima, acknowledged that the most delicate stretch will be Santa Cruz de Succhabamba, 2,000 meters high, after the operation in which part of the right lung was removed from the pontiff.

·Lima, Peru
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La República broke the news in Lima, Peru on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
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