Mwanawasa 'in semi-coma'
2008-07-02 13:38
Sharm el-Sheik - The head of the Egyptian hospital that treated Zambia's president says he was in a semi-coma but "still alive" when evacuated to Paris from Egypt.
Saeed Abdel Fattah Essa said the Zambian president had a "brain hemorrhage" which Egyptian doctors managed to stop. Essa also said that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited Mwanawasa at the hospital before he was flown to France at 19:00 on Tuesday.
President Levy Mwanawasa was rushed to hospital on Sunday after he fell ill during the African Union summit here. His vice-president said late on Tuesday in Lusaka that Mwanawas's condition "still remains stable".
A semi-coma was a mild or partial comatose state. Mwanawasa had criticised the policies of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.
- AP