Kaylum now faces a medical bill of £35,000 after needing emergency surgery
A man is facing a huge medical bill after severing an artery in his leg when a shower door shattered while he was on holiday. Kaylum Jones had to have surgery after cutting his leg while on holiday in Egypt, and now has a bill of £35,000.
Kaylum, 28, had travelled to Egypt with his partner and on the second day of his trip, a shower door shattered, severing an artery in his leg. Sister Chantele said: “It was so bad he thought he was going to die.”
When Kaylum got to hospital for major surgery, he was told that the travel insurance he had taken out would not cover the costs of the healthcare he needed. Kaylum had forgotten to take out insurance while in the UK, and did so upon arriving at the airport in Egypt.
“He had lost a lot of blood. His partner was in the other room sorting out all the insurance details while he was rushed into emergency surgery,” Chantele said. “He was actually awake while the surgery was happening. We were relying on his partner to communicate back to us with what was happening. It was a very long day waiting for the news.”
Chantele and her family have now set up a GoFundMe page in the hopes of raising funds towards the bill they have been left to pay in order for her brother to come home. “We have taken out a few loans, but they obviously have their repercussions,” Chantele said.
A total of £4,000 has been raised online so far. Now recovering from the major surgery to repair the artery, Kaylum is preparing to travel back to his home in Milton Keynes. Chantele is warning others to make sure they take out travel insurance before leaving the UK to go abroad.
“It does say in the small print that it needs to be taken out in the UK, but nobody ever reads that bit,” she said. Chantele said it is expected that her brother will need additional skin graft surgery once he is back in the UK.
She added that despite the language barriers, Kaylum has been treated “really well” while recovering from his accident in Egypt.