The head of an Egyptian hospital says Zambia’s president was in a semi-coma when medically evacuated to Paris from the African Union summit.

Saeed Abdel Fattah Essa says President Levy Mwanawasa had a “brain hemorrhage,” which Egyptian doctors stopped when he was taken to his hospital on Sunday. Essa says Wednesday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited Mwanawasa before his evacuation Tuesday evening. A semi-coma is a mild or partial comatose state.

Zambia’s vice president says in Lusaka that Mwanawasa’s condition “still remains stable.”

Mwanawasa was at the African Union summit when he got sick