Uninsured Brit left stranded in Thai hospital after falling ailing

Friends are trying to lift £10,000 to securely return a British vacationer who has been left stranded in a ‘hell gap’ Thai hospital after falling ailing with suspected leukaemia. 

Dean Penson, 41, fell sick on the island of Phuket, on the southern tip of the nation, just a few weeks in the past – and medical doctors now worry he might have the lethal blood most cancers.

But alongside his terrifying prognosis, the labourer has confronted ‘horrific’ circumstances on the native government-run Vachira Phuket Hospital as he did not take out insurance coverage.

Friends say the infirmary has puddles of blood on the ground, needles strewn on the bottom and folks dying simply ft away from him every day.

Dean’s finest good friend Ben Page, 42, who has been with him throughout his keep on the ‘third world’ open clinic mentioned they’re going to want to seek out round £9,750 for the medical payments and the flight to get him residence. 

Ben mendacity on a hospital mattress hooked up to a drip. He fell sick on the island of Phuket, on the southern tip of the nation, just a few weeks in the past and medical doctors now worry he might have the lethal blood most cancers

A stool that seems to be bloodstained beside a bag of litter on the hospital. Dean’s finest good friend Ben Page mentioned of the hospital: ‘There’s blood in all places, there’s needles in all places’

Ben mentioned of the hospital: ‘It’s fairly horrendous, the circumstances are so dangerous. There’s blood in all places, there’s needles in all places.

‘It feels just like the “Third World”.

‘There’s blood throughout Dean’s mattress. There has been blood on the duvet since he obtained there. There’s no bathroom roll, you simply wash with a hose.

‘And the nurses have tousled so many occasions. They have pulled a needle out of him, and the blood simply pours out.

‘Three folks have died subsequent to him during the last three or 4 days and there are not any curtains. The machines are on all evening so he cannot sleep.’

Dean, from Southend-on-Sea, had initially flown out to Phuket for just a few weeks with a gaggle of mates on November 6.

Ben mentioned he’d urged Dean to take out insurance coverage earlier than leaving, however he fearful that he would not get lined at an inexpensive price as he’d beforehand damaged each his knees.

But Dean started to really feel unwell on about November 15 earlier than his mates determined to hurry him to a hospital close to the bustling island’s outdated city 4 days later.

Dean Penson, 41, on the Vachira Phuket Hospital. The labourer has confronted ‘horrific’ circumstances on the hospital as he did not take out insurance coverage

Ben Page and Dean Penson within the Thai hospital, with Dean giving the thumbs up. Ben mentioned that it feels just like the ‘Third World’

Doctors then found that he had a particularly low blood rely, main him to have round 20 transfusions over the subsequent ten days.

Ben, who briefly returned to the UK earlier than coming again to be together with his good friend, mentioned they think he might have leukaemia.

He mentioned: ‘He’s simply obtained worse and worse, he is actually anaemic We’ve been finest mates since we had been 15. It was simply horrendous to see him like this.

‘He could not see effectively out of his eyes as a result of he had a haemorrhage behind them. That was inflicting him to bleed from them.

‘His bloods are simply so low, which may very well be leukaemia, however I’m not likely positive. He’s had 18-20 luggage of blood and platelets. His platelets are simply completely depleted.

‘But it is simply horrendous on the hospital. We would not deal with an animal in a vets this manner.

‘At one level they smashed his mattress in opposition to the wall, however he is a excessive threat of mind haemorrhage. It’s been horrible seeing him like this.’

Dean’s mattress on the hospital, with seen stains on it. Ben mentioned: ‘There’s blood throughout Dean’s mattress. There has been blood on the duvet since he obtained there’

Father of two Ben, who runs the Combat Charity Challenge enterprise, mentioned they had been hopeful that Dean could be declared match sufficient to fly over the subsequent few days.

But he mentioned that he nonetheless confronted a startling hospital invoice when he returned residence, with little hope of having the ability to pay it off.

He mentioned: ‘The hospital has up to now charged round £5,000.

‘He’s clearly run up a invoice right here that he cannot afford to pay. And he will need to go A&E when he will get again.

‘They are simply pumping him filled with blood in the meanwhile within the hope that we are able to carry him residence.’

A GoFundMe account arrange for Dean has up to now raised greater than £3,000 of its £9,750 purpose.