Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, who has been hospitalised since he was shot in the head earlier this month during a campaign event, is out of an emergency surgery performed on Monday (June 16, 2025) but is in “extremely critical” condition, the Santa Fe Foundation hospital said on Monday (June 16, 2025).
Mr. Uribe, 39, a potential presidential candidate from the right-wing opposition, was shot in Bogota on June 7 during a rally.
“Patient Miguel Uribe Turbay is out of surgery and his condition is extremely critical, characterised by a persistent cerebral edema and difficult to control inter-cerebral bleeding,” the hospital said in a statement, adding that his condition is of “maximum seriousness.”
The more than six-hour surgery was Mr. Uribe’s third since he was shot. He was rushed into emergency surgery for bleeding in his brain on Monday (June 16, 2025) morning, the hospital said, after undergoing another surgical procedure that was complementary to his original operation.
“I’ve come out to again ask all Colombians, appealing to their good hearts, to the love they feel for Miguel, for my family and for Colombia, for us to hold a mass prayer. Today is crucial,” his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona told journalists outside the hospital.
