Brit mum in critical condition & stranded in £10,000-a-day Turkey hospital WILL fly home after insurance backdown
THE British mum fighting for her life in a £10,000-a-day Turkish hospital will be able to fly home after her family fought against insurance red tape.
Carole Fleming, 67, was visiting her son-in-law's family when she was struck down with a mystery illness.
Her devastated family revealed recently that they were told they would only be reimbursed for the hospital bills if she dies.
But now her insurer Axer, who allegedly refused to pay, has now agreed to foot the bill.
Good Samaritans also helped to raise £37,000 for a flight home.
Carol collapsed at her husband's home in Turkey and was given just 48 hours to live.
She was rushed to hospital where medics found her platelet count to be 6,000 per microlitre of blood, well below the minimum safe amount of 150,000.
Breast cancer survivor Carole's daughter Stephanie Uyar, 36, says she feels like she's "trapped in a horror movie".
Stephanie claims the family appealed to the Foreign Office for help, but have been told the Government is unable to help repatriate her mum unless she dies.
Speaking to , Stephanie previously said: "The doctors here in Turkey need to progress rapidly with a course of testing and treatment.
"The insurance cannot cover her treatment until there is a diagnosis specifying that it is not related to the breast cancer she survived.
"We need to get her back home to the wonderful care of our precious NHS, but without medical repatriation... her Turkish doctors, wisely, cannot sign her out of care to fly.
"The British consulate, both here in Turkey and back in London cannot help us. If she dies, they will repatriate, but not whilst ill [and] alive."
Stephanie said doctors wrongly believed her illness was being caused by a medication she was taking.
But medics changed their minds when they took Carole off the medication and her condition failed to improve.
Carole is now being cared for on an intensive care ward in the southwestern region of Muğla.
Her condition is thought to be being caused by a deficiency in her bone marrow, with regular blood transfusions and other treatment currently costing £1,000 each day.
Her family want to see her returned to Britain so she can be treated on the NHS, but she is too unwell to make the journey on a regular flight.
They want to charter a commercial air ambulance so she can be transferred safely, but the trip would cost £25,000 - which has now been paid for by the Good Samaritans.
Doctors have said that, even to make the trip in the air ambulance, Carole would require immunoglobulin therapy - a treatment to strengthen the immune system - and that the cost would be £10,000 per day.
Speaking from the UK, Carole's brother, Ian, 55, said she is an "incredibly kind, incredibly warm, caring person".
Ian said: "She spent her life helping disadvantaged kids into apprenticeships.
"After all she's done to help people, it's awful to think that she could die because of something like an insurance error."
The family launched a to help cover the cost of getting Carole home safely, and it has raised more than its £30,000 target.
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Stephanie said: "We all have a mother so please please look into your hearts and help me get mine to safety!"
A Foreign Office spokesperson said: "We are in contact with the family of a British woman who has been admitted to hospital in Turkey."
