“He has been in and out of consciousness and has been refusing food,” the source said.

Mubarak was sent to prison on June 2 after being sentenced to life in prison for killing some 850 hundred protesters during the revolution that ousted him last year.

Since then, his health has been at risk, according to Egyptian media reports, with rumors of his death spreading rapidly.

Authorities have granted his wife, former first lady Suzanne Mubarak, and the couple’s two daughters-in-law special permission to visit him in Cairo’s Torah prison on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera.

On Wednesday, prison sources said that Mubarak’s health is “severely deteriorating.” Sources inside Cairo’s Tora said that Mubarak collapsed following visits on Monday by his wife Suzanne, and his sons Alaa and Gamal, according to Al Arabiya.

The sons are being held at the same prison awaiting trial on insider trading charges, after they and their father were acquitted on June 2 of corruption charges.

Mubarak’s wife, Suzanne,  who visited him on Sunday, according to the officials, demanded that he be transferred to a better-equipped hospital. The officials said such a transfer was likely unless Mubarak’s health improves.

However, according to a Reuters report confirmed the information in Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan through a source who works at the hospital and requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, that Mubarak has been living a comfortable life in the hospital, free to see relatives, walk in the garden and exercise.