The mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, is admitted to a hospital center in the capital after he suffered a brain injury this afternoon, as reported by the City Council in a statement.

De la Torre will be operated on in the next few hours at the CHIP Clinic in the city by surgeons from the Neurosurgery Service of the Malaga Regional Hospital, transferred to the aforementioned clinic as part of the measures adopted by the Andalusian Government against COVID- 19.

De la Torre, who turned 77 last December, is conscious and in good condition and is under observation at the CHIP Clinic after undergoing, in the early afternoon, at the Virgen de la Victoria Clinical Hospital, a test in which a chronic subdural hematoma has been detected.

These injuries, they have specified from the City Council, often have the antecedent of a slight head injury a long time ago.

The doctors who attend him have informed his family that his prognosis is favorable, although he will require surgical intervention in the next few hours for the adequate resolution of the condition. The Malaga City Council will inform you of its evolution with the data provided by the doctors who treat you and in agreement with your family.

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