Never, ever, ever, travel without it.
I am currently dealing with a man who has none. He's a Brit, he arrived here 6 weeks ago, on business.
He has had a stroke and even though he is recovering cannot speak, feed himself, or move to any great degree.
The hospital want to discharge him because they are buried in COVID-19 and need the bed. In any case they say there is nothing more that they can do.
So far the hospital bill is £140,000.
To fly him back to the UK on a commercial flight with a nurse will cost around £30,000. But there are no commercial flights.
To fly him back on a Medivac flight will cost £200,000.
To move him to a rehabilitation home will cost around £3,000 per month if we can find one willing to take him and some way of paying for it, bearing in mind it could be for years. Or at least until we find some way of getting him to a facility in the UK under the NHS.
His children have refused to pay, I think they don't have money but they're a bit funny, though I haven't spoken to them directly - the Foreign Office in London has done that.
He is a freelance consultant. The company he was representing had arranged travel insurance for him but he didn't complete it for some reason - the cost was only £80.
He has 10 credit cards, none of which have much in the way of space on them. We have no way of accessing any UK funds he may or may not have, he cannot communicate sufficiently to give us permission and the family are unwilling to help. However, with 10 credit cards my WAG says he hasn't got any money in his account(s) either.
What a *$£%% mess.
All because he didn't pay £80 for insurance. And we don't even know why not.
NEVER TRAVEL WITHOUT INSURANCE
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