Doctor says Mubarak given wrong medication

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, April 15 (UPI) -- An Egyptian doctor sent to examine Hosni Mubarak said the ousted president had been given the wrong medication, which caused an abnormal heart rate.

"After examining Mubarak, I found that he was suffering from atrial fibrillation," Dr. al-Sebaei Ahmed al-Sebaei, head of the Egyptian Forensic Examination Authority, told al-Arabiya Thursday.

Other Egyptian doctors had "administered [Mubarak] with the wrong medication, which caused his abnormal heart rate and subsequent hypotension," al-Sebaei said.

"His heart rhythm reached120 beats per minute and his blood pressure was 80/50."

The doctor said he examined Mubarak Tuesday at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik and ordered that he be hospitalized.

"I left him in a stable condition and then returned to Cairo to prepare the reports required by the prosecutor general," the doctor said.

Mubarak, 82, has been at Sharm el-Sheik since protests brought down his regime in February.