Egyptian former President Hosni Mubarak is slipping in and out of a coma and his morale has plunged after news of Mohamed Mursi’s victory in the presidential polls.

Egyptian former President Hosni Mubarak is slipping in and out of a coma and his morale has plunged after news of Mohamed Mursi's victory in the presidential polls.

"The former president has been greatly affected by the news of Morsi's presidential victory," said one of the officials at a Cairo military where Mubarak was transferred last week.

"According to medical reports, Mubarak's morale has worsened. He is in depression and slips in and out of coma," the official who declined to be named told AFP.
"His medical team is carrying out all sorts of tests on his brain and heart," the source added

Mursi, candidate of the formerly banned Muslim Brotherhood in the June 16-17 election, was confirmed as Egypt's first democratically elected civilian president on Sunday, succeeding Mubarak.

Last week Mubarak was moved from jail, where he is serving a life sentence, to a military hospital in Cairo amid uncertainty over his health.

On June 20, medical sources said the 84-year-old former president, who was ousted following a popular uprising, was "in a coma and the doctors are trying to revive him."