Brit fighting for life in hospital in Kenya faces £80,000 bill amid holiday insurance hell
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A British mum fighting for her life in a hospital in Kenya faces a £80,000 bill for treatment and her flight home. Lee Flint, 77, was found unresponsive in her bed days in the African country amid her and husband Jack's charity mission there. She was rushed to Mombasa Intensive Care Unit where medics diagnosed her with grade four kidney and liver failure.
Her travel insurance won't cover the cost of care or a flight home, and so Lee's family, from Addlestone, Surrey, are left "completely helpless" to their plight. The mum, who was Jack's carer during his own cancer journey which he recently overcame, remains in a critical condition with internal bleeding and blood poisoning.
Lee's son Jamie, 52, said: "It's a living nightmare really. One day she was not responsive in her bed and they had no idea what happened. She has kidney and liver failure so her organs are shutting down. I know she's got an internal bleed. She had blood poisoning and that's what was causing her to fall in and out of consciousness. I was heartbroken and felt completely helpless. I told my dad I have to come out there.".
Jamie, who is a solar engineer, has now set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money to fund the bills his family faces. He said his parents made a mistake on their insurance form because Lee did not want to worry Jack about a blood test and scan she had had back in the UK before they left for Kenya.
But the tests were not mentioned on the form as a result, and this has voided her insurance. The first Jack, who finished chemotherapy this year, knew about the test and scan was when his wife fell ill during their charity work. Jamie said: "After my dad had finished his chemotherapy and my mum was his main carer which took a lot out of her, they inevitably made a mistake on the insurance form.
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