A medical panel tasked by Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah to check on the health of former President Hosni Mubarak arrived at Tora Prison Tuesday, where Mubarak is serving a life sentence for failing to prevent the deaths of protesters during the 18-day uprising.
Assistant Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said the panel will prepare a report on Mubarak’s condition. The former leader underwent testing at Maadi Military Hospital last week after falling in the prison’s bathroom. Doctors have said Mubarak sustained a crack in his chest as a result of the fall.
Ibrahim said the report will be submitted to the prosecutor general, who will decide either to keep Mubarak in prison or to transfer him to another hospital.
His doctors, meanwhile, stress that the former president’s health has stabilized and does not require a surgical intervention.
Security sources said Mubarak’s son, Gamal, attended the medical test on his father and stressed his need for care at another hospital.
Mubarak’s lawyer, Farid al-Deeb, had requested that his client be transferred to a hospital outside prison after he repeatedly fell inside the prison’s bathroom.
Mubarak was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in June for failing to prevent the deaths of protesters during the 25 January revolution that ended his 30-year rule.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
