World / Egypt Ex-Dictator Hosni Mubarak Returning to Hospital No details released about 84-year-old's health problems By Mark Russell, Newser Staff 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. (More Egypt stories.) Report an error