A British tourist who was stuck in Greece on a ventilator with a £59,000 hospital and air ambulance bill after a holiday insurance mistake has died.
Alan Kirby, 67, was enjoying a family trip to Zante when he suffered a 'septic' shock and was diagnosed with pneumonia and suspected lung cancer and received care in Athens.
He had initially thought the pain in his side at dinner was from throwing his stepdaughter's children around in the sea.
But when he woke up breathless he sought medical advice, and doctors advised he return to the UK for a biopsy on a mass in his lung they feared might be cancer.
Before they could get home, his health deteriorated and he was put on a ventilator - prohibiting him from taking a commercial flight back to the UK - and he was airlifted to a private hospital in Athens.
