Traveler who broke his hip while abroad in Egypt now forced to raise over $73K to go home

A British holiday maker who fell over and broke his hips says he is being forced to raise $73,014 to get back home despite being insured.Geoff Seedall, 69, was on a family holiday in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, when he tripped over in the hotel and broke the bone.The grandad-of-three was told he needed surgery to repair the bone but it’s been recommended by doctors in Egypt that he has the operation in the UK.Geoff’s daughter-in-law Kelly Seedall, 40, says the travel insurance company wants him to pay $53,101 for a medical flight home and $19,913 for his hospital stay.The company will then reimburse Geoff, who was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, but his family cannot afford to do this.Kelly said: “The whole reason you get travel insurance, is so you aren’t in this situation where you have to pay out thousands.“If we had the money, then we wouldn’t take out travel insurance because we don’t need it.“But they are saying we have to upfront the cost to get it home, and they will pay us back at a later date.“We’ve put a complaint in and it will take eight weeks for them to respond – Geoff doesn’t have eight weeks so we need to get him home.”Kelly says they have considered getting Geoff, of Stalmine, Lancashire, a commercial flight home but are worried about this because he’s “getting confused.”She said: “They would need to airlift him home.“The $53,101 would be for the aircraft and for two nurses to go with him and put him on a stretcher.“There’s been talks of him getting on a commercial flight but he’s confused and is lashing out – he’s also struggling with the language barrier.Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.

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