Mubarak`s health is seriously deteriorating, and he is having irregular heart beats and difficulties in breathing, the official in Cairo`s Torah prison was quoted by the official news agency MENA as saying.
Mubarak is suffering a breakdown and has been put on the ventilator for long hours, the source said, adding that he is likely to be transferred to a military hospital.
The Egyptian former president was put in prison last week after a criminal court in Cairo sentenced him to a life imprisonment for charges of complicity in killing protestors.
His wife Suzanne and daughters-in-law have visited him in the prison, the official said.
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