Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is suffering from severe depression in jail with his psychological deteriorating after being sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the killing of protesters to his rule.

Cairo's Torah prison officials said that 84-year-old Mubarak had collapsed several times and had to be placed on ventilators for breathing disorders. 

Mubarak's elder son, Gamal has been moved to a ward next to the hospital to allow him to monitor his father in the intensive care unit. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials said Mubarak has lost weight and is having difficulty walking, butdoctors managed to convince him to take his medicine, which he was initially refusing.