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 Why Catherine O'Hara's death feels like a 'gut punch.' New batch of Epstein files contains more eyebrow-raising claims. A new 'No Kings' protest is on the calendar. Watchdog warning for taxpayers: Tax season could be challenging. Report an error