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 Putin faces unfamiliar terrain of shouted questions. Kristi Noem is catching some flak over her new home. Guests find summit document on hotel printer. This is why you never rappel down a waterfall alone. Report an error