Mubarak taken off life support, but remains in coma

Updated on: 21 June,2012 12:02 PM IST |
Agencies |

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is in critical condition, but has been taken off life support after being thought close to death, according to a report

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Mubarak was transferred to a military hospital from the Cairo prison hospital where he has been kept since his June 2 conviction and sentencing for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising.

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The state run media said that Mubarak was ‘clinically dead’ when he arrived at the hospital and that doctors used a defibrillator on him several times.

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His wife Suzanne was by his side in the Nile-side hospital in Maadi, Cairo, The Daily Mail reports.

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According to the paper, security officials said a team of 15 doctors, including heart, blood and brain specialists, was supervising the condition of Mubarak, who needed help with his breathing.

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Mubarak, 84, was convicted of failing to prevent the killing of some 900 protesters during the 18-day uprising that forced him out of office in February 2011.

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He and his two sons, onetime heir apparent Gamal and wealthy businessman Alaa, were acquitted of corruption charges.

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