A British male had been killed in a hospital in Egypt because his family couldn't pay his bill

News24xx.com -  A British citizen died in Egypt after hospital staff shut down his life support machine because his family could not pay the bill about £ 7,000 (IDR 117 million) a court heard. Adrian King, 39, was at the Red Sea resort of Hurghada with his girlfriend, Nicola Wright when he fell ill.

The couple was riding a camel when Adrian said that he felt sick and asked to go home. He eventually falls unconscious and Nicola tells how she should get a guide to bring them back to the base. Adrian was hospitalized, but died on May 29 last year.

 

The examiner Andrew Haigh said the hospital had failed to respond to his email question about Adrian's death. Notes that given by the family show Adrian hospital claims suffered a "heart attack" before he died. But the family denied it and said that the life support machine was turned off without their permission because they could not immediately pay a £7,000 bill immediately.

 

Insurance companies will not bear the cost of treatment because alcohol has been determined as a factor of Adrian's disease, the examination says.

Adrian's father, Charles Bumford, 58, told to the court at Cannock, "A man in the hospital stood in my son's room and told me that 'insurance is void and you must pay now or I will turn off the engine. I says, I did not have money about £ 7,000 that he asked for at the time, when he came out of the room, he started turning it off. "

Nicola Wright, 34 yo, of Newcastle-Under-Lyne, told the court: "We went to the Egyptian Hospital, they said that the insurance was canceled, they never said that he had a heart attack or anything. And they said they would not have dialysis anymore and from there he died. "

Coroner Simon Webster said: "Insurance companies refuse to pay for medical treatment because alcohol is a factor and treatment funds are withdrawn."

The coroner explained that there was no post mortem check done, because the Egyptian authorities had embalmed the Adrian's corpse for repatriation and then delayed the return of his corpse to England.

Adrian's heartbroken mother, Elaine Huxley, 58, from Stafford, said her family must raise funds to restore her son's corpse and bury her in England.

"The cause of his death was a combination of kidney failure, and too long in the hot desert, followed by limited medical care."

 

 

 

 

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