Heidelberg - President Hosni Mubarak is to leave a German hospital in the coming days, after a gall-bladder operation earlier this month, a spokeswoman for the clinic said Wednesday. "Doctors had not yet decided when exactly the 81-year-old would be released," a spokeswoman for Heidelberg University Clinic was quoted by Egypt's official Middle East News Agency ( MENA) as saying. She added, however, that health was stable enough for this to happen in the next few days. "The doctors said they were happy with Mubarak's recovery and said he was in good health after the strain of the surgery," the spokeswoman said. The president had his gall-bladder removed in the German hospital on March 6, after being diagnosed with a serious inflammation. Meanwhile, Gamal Mubarak, the son of Egypt's president, and his wife have had a baby girl, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. Farida Gamal Hosni Mubarak was the first child born to Gamal, 46, and his wife Khadija el-Gammal. The 46-year-old former investment banker married Gammal, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, in 2007. Members of Mubarak's family have been by his bedside regularly, but MENA did not say where the baby girl, the president's first granddaughter, was born nor whether Gamal Mubarak was at the birth. Mohamed, one of the president's two grandsons from his son, Alaa, died unexpectedly aged 12 last May. The president has worn a black tie in public since then. Mubarak has not said if he will run for a sixth six-year term in the 2011 presidential election. Many Egyptians believe that, if he does not, he will try to hand power to his politician son. Both Mubaraks deny any such plan.
