Chile leader daughter recovering

Ms Bachelet has cancelled all Monday's engagements

The eldest daughter of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is recovering in hospital after suffering convulsions caused by a blood clot.

Francisca Davalos, 23, was admitted on Sunday with cerebral thrombosis which struck shortly after she played a game of football with friends.

Doctors say she is doing well but they expect her to stay for several days.

Ms Bachelet, who has two other children, cancelled engagements to be at her daughter's bedside.

Ms Davalos was taken to a Santiago hospital on Sunday afternoon after collapsing and having convulsions.

She was suffering cerebral thrombosis, a blood clot in an artery or vein of the brain that can provoke a stroke.

Headaches

"Francisca is calm, awake, and talking," said Dr Arnold Hoppe, director of the hospital's neurology department.

"She is not in pain, she doesn't even have headaches at the moment, which was something she had in the days leading up to her illness, and she has had no further convulsions."

The symptoms surfaced after she had played football but Dr Hoppe said this was not connected to her condition "which is very rare, affecting just around five people in a million."

Tests are still being carried out to try to determine the cause of the thrombosis.

President Bachelet cleared her schedule for Monday to be at the hospital.

The president also has a son and another daughter.