World | Egypt Ex-Dictator Hosni Mubarak Returning to Hospital No details released about 84-year-old's health problems By Mark Russell Posted Dec 27, 2012 10:57 AM CST Copied In this June 2, 2012 file photo, Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak lays on a gurney inside a barred cage in the police academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/File) Hosni Mubarak is heading back to the hospital, reports CNN, this time with cracked ribs and a head injury after he reportedly slipped in a prison bathroom this month. Mubarak spent a month hospitalized over the summer with health problems, and at one point was rumored to have fallen into a coma and been clinically dead. A ruling on the 84-year-old's appeal of his life sentence in prison is expected Jan. 13. Read These Next Something James Carville said made Melania Trump's lawyer unhappy. Vance's office says it wasn't involved in the river-raising. Justice Department goes after a prominent Trump foe. Phoenix just broke a record it probably didn't want to break. Report an error