All about the 79-year-old British woman ‘held hostage’ in Turkish hospital for not paying £190,000 medical bill

A British woman is allegedly being ‘held hostage‘ at a hospital in Antalya, Turkey, for failing to pay £190,000 in medical bills, The Daily Mail reported. Her daughter, Lucy Groves, has come out and said that her mother has been kept in the intensive care unit of a hospital where the authorities have said that they will not allow her to fly out unless they pay the first £100,000 of her medical bill.

Groves said that her mother went to Turkey to meet her friends on a holiday. She fell “seriously unwell” while on tour and suffered a heart attack. The doctors at the hospital had to intubate her followed by an emergency triple heart bypass surgery.

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Upon hearing about her mother’s illness, Groves immediately rushed to be by her side. She says that her mother fell ill again – this time with pneumonia, and had to be reintubated in order to rest her lungs.

Five days later, the 79-year-old was woken up by the doctors but her stomach muscles started bleeding and she had to intubate for the third time. At the moment, she is conscious but still critically ill and admitted to ICU, as per the report from The Daily Mail.

Through WhatsApp, she has only been able to briefly speak with her mother three times and she is worried that ‘she is alone in a strange country and not really aware of what’ she’s been through.’

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Her coverage is worthless because she failed to disclose a medical condition before to the occurrence, which is why the family initially thought her insurance would pay the medical bills.

Given that they “don’t have that amount of money to pay,” the family is “devastated” and worried about their mother. Groves started a fundraising campaign and is “pleading for any help, no matter how tiny,” to send her mother home because the hospital won’t let her go and will keep her passport until £100,000 is paid.