Egypt sets up committee to re-check Mubarak’s health
May 20th, 2011 - 9:33 am ICT by IANSCairo, May 20 (IANS/AKI) Egypt’s attorney general has ordered the setting up of a new medical committee to re-examine former president Hosni Mubarak’s health condition.
Abdel Meguid Mahmoud wants to see if the 83-year-old Mubarak can be transferred from a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh to Cairo’s Tora prison.
Judicial officials said the new medical team comprises three doctors specialised in heart diseases from Cairo, Ain Shams and Al-Azhar universities, in addition to two doctors from Egypt’s armed forces.
Mubarak has been in detention since April at the Sharm El-Sheikh International Hospital, when prosecutors began interrogating him over charges of corruption and sanctioning the killing of protesters during the three-week uprising that led to his ouster Feb 11.
His lawyers have filed medical reports claiming he was too ill to be moved, although prosecutors have been able to continue interrogating him.
According to the medical report by the former chief coroner, Mubarak suffers from heart problems which require him to be kept in intensive care.
The new committee will also examine Tora prison’s hospital to see if it has the facilities to provide adequate medical care to Mubarak.
Mubarak’s sons Alaa and Gamal are currently in Tora prison on corruption and profiteering charges.
–IANS/AKI
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