Poor little fella, tough for you all.
Wishing a speedy recovery and a safe journey home.
Wishing a speedy recovery and a safe journey home.
If you ever think you don’t need Travel insurance…..
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Thoughts and prayers with you all, Adam
As you say,in one way lucky it started at the airport and not whilst airborne, who knows where you would have landed.
Glad everything is on the mend and they’ll be back home soon.
Glad everything is on the mend and they’ll be back home soon.
Just heard the good news that they are being discharged, my daughter had to pay the excess on the bill directly to the hospital herself as the insurers don't cover that part, so a total bill of THB 164,190.17 with an excess of THB 3,184. That works out around £4000 in total with £77.65 excess (based on an exchange of THB 41 to the Pound Sterling).
Not bad for an en-suite bedroom for three in a modern Hospital with 24 hour care and treatment, obviously a lot less money than it would cost in UK.
The final medical diagnosis was Pneumonia from an unspecified organism.
They are now being put up in the Grand Four Wings Convention Hotel in Bangkok for a week but will incur other expenses for food etc. The insurers want a repeat chest X-ray next week before they arrange repatriation flights.
To say we are relieved is an understatement, its a great weight off my chest (no pun intended).
Edit: Just been told he has a review back at the Hospital on Saturday and if cleared to fly, the repatriation team will book flights so they could be coming home as early as Sunday.
Not bad for an en-suite bedroom for three in a modern Hospital with 24 hour care and treatment, obviously a lot less money than it would cost in UK.
The final medical diagnosis was Pneumonia from an unspecified organism.
They are now being put up in the Grand Four Wings Convention Hotel in Bangkok for a week but will incur other expenses for food etc. The insurers want a repeat chest X-ray next week before they arrange repatriation flights.
To say we are relieved is an understatement, its a great weight off my chest (no pun intended).
Edit: Just been told he has a review back at the Hospital on Saturday and if cleared to fly, the repatriation team will book flights so they could be coming home as early as Sunday.
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Great news, how lovely to see that smile on his face
Just to update this, he is still in hospital in Alicantê, three stents and two , yes two pacemakers fitted. Technically he died for about ten minutes before being found at the side of the road! Imagine what his hospital bill will be!
When the wife worked in the NHS they had one where insurance company needed some info on a patient who had been admitted to hospital somehere in the Far East , it was something serious and expensive but covered by their travel medical insurance and eventually required medical repatriation.
If they had not got the correct level of insurance they would have been pitched out of the hospital if they could not have found the £1000 per day or so needed and the cost of repatriation would have been prohibitive.
Anyone travelling outside the UK with only their GHIC ( or in some cases not even that) must be bloody stupid
If they had not got the correct level of insurance they would have been pitched out of the hospital if they could not have found the £1000 per day or so needed and the cost of repatriation would have been prohibitive.
Anyone travelling outside the UK with only their GHIC ( or in some cases not even that) must be bloody stupid
Travel insurance can also prove very beneficial within the UK, too.
Good to see the little chap looking happy there.
Hopefully he will soon be back home and thankfully is too young to have any lasting bad memories of the whole incident.
Hopefully he will soon be back home and thankfully is too young to have any lasting bad memories of the whole incident.
And to conclude the tale, baby was passed fit to fly yesterday, they boarded an Eva Air premium economy return flight this morning (midday our time) and are presently somewhere over India, should be home on UK soil this evening. To say we are relieved is an understatement.
The bill runs to many thousands of pounds.
The moral is……NEVER travel without adequate insurance cover.
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The bill runs to many thousands of pounds.
The moral is……NEVER travel without adequate insurance cover.
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I’ve worked a few medevac jobs and would not like to start to guess the cost of them. Private jet complete with nurse, doctor and a paramedic. Met by us at the airport then transferred to whichever hospital they needed. Again with at least a medic or nurse. I know the company I worked for charged an awful amount of money just for the road trip this side. We have even driven ambulances as far as Spain, Italy, France etc for a road transfer if the patient cannot be flown back.
I’ve not done many as they usually only asked me if the ambulance needed a blue light driver, which is more expensive than a regular driver.
I remember dropping the pilot off on one trip at a very expensive hotel for the night, again to be covered by the insurance.
Travel insurance if it’s needed is worth every penny.
I’ve not done many as they usually only asked me if the ambulance needed a blue light driver, which is more expensive than a regular driver.
I remember dropping the pilot off on one trip at a very expensive hotel for the night, again to be covered by the insurance.
Travel insurance if it’s needed is worth every penny.
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poor little mite- so sad when tiny ones suffer like this.
