Pope Francis warned against the threat of corruption during an audience in the Vatican with staff, volunteers, patients and family's from Rome's Bambin Gesù pediatric hospital on Thursday. "It's necessary to resist the temptation to transform a children's hospital into a place of business, where the doctors become profiteers, the nurses profiteers, everyone profiteers," the pope said. Francis said Bambin Gesù's past had been "not always good" and said that "corruption is the worst enemy... many people get deceived with health". The Vatican opened an investigation into two people earlier this year for alleged misappropriation in connection with expensive renovations to a penthouse apartment inhabited by its former Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
The probe began after media reports that the work was paid for by a foundation linked to the Bambin Gesu' pediatric hospital.
The hospital operates in the Italian national health system but is owned and managed by the Holy See.
Cardinal Bertone is not under investigation.
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