Report: Mubarak clinically dead
Egypt’s state media says ousted president clinically dead following combined heart attack and stroke
News agencies
Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years until overthrown by a revolution in the „Arab Spring” last year, was declared clinically dead by his doctors on Tuesday, the state news agency MENA said in a report confirmed by a hospital source.
Mubarak was 84 and had been sentenced to life in prison earlier this month.
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Egypt’s state-run news agency said earlier Tuesday that the former president slipped into a coma after suffering both a cardiac incident and an ischemic stroke.
He was then from a prison hospital to a military facility.
State TV reported earlier that the ousted leader was in a „critical condition” and has been placed on a respirator. MENA said Mubarak’s heart stopped and a defibrillator was used to restart it.
It later reported that the prison authority has called in his doctors to treat his stroke in „a fast deterioration of his health” and that they were giving him medications to break up blood clots.
Mubarak was sentenced to a life in prison on June 2 for failing to stop the killing of protesters during last year’s uprising against him. He was transferred to prison after spending months in a military facility in detention. Officials have since repeatedly reported his health was deteriorating.
Since his arrival at the prison directly after his sentencing, Mubarak has been suffering from high blood pressure and breathing difficulties and deep depression, according to prison officials.
His lawyer said he didn’t trust the doctors and appealed for his transfer to a better equipped hospital.
