A sick Scot stuck in a Cambodian hospital bed has been told he will lose a lung unless he can come up with the cash to pay for private treatment.
Teacher Anthony Igoe, 31, was working in the Asian country when he fell so ill with a serious lung infection he required hospital treatment.
But with his insurance firm refusing to pay out, medics in the poverty-stricken country have now told him he will have to pay the £20,000 for antibiotic drugs himself – or doctors will simply remove the infected lung.
And that has left his family back here in the UK desperately scrambling to come up with the cash. Dad Jerry, 66, from Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire, told the Daily Record : “My guts are in knots.