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Cruise Ship Passenger in a Coma after diagnosed with acute gastrointestinal symptoms

Argentinean cruise passenger Ana Maria Arroyos is in a coma after her dream vacation turned into a nightmare.  The 49 year old woman went on vacation on the cruise ship Norwegian Epic with her daughter Celeste. On April 12 she experienced abdominal pain and Norwegian Epic Doctor diagnosed acute gastrointestinal symptoms and prescribed pills and give her dippers. The woman’s health worsened, and the captain decided to transfer the passenger in a hospital in Jamaica. Doctors in University Hospital in Kingston operated her and removed an ovary and uterus but the woman  had a serious generalized infection, and  for 12 days, is in coma.

Ana Maria Arroyos family is asking for emergency medical plane to bring her to Argentina

"If we do not get an emergency air ambulance she might die," said Federico Guidi Clarin, her son. insurance company Assist Card " covered $ 20,000 that were used for the first four days of hospitalization, which had to operate". But Ana Maria has water in her lungs, she needed a respirator and to get it they had to change in the hospital because he was not there.

"We talked to the Argentinean Health Ministry's Office to ask for a medical plane and they said they were renovating one. Time passed and went to Chancery and tell us that never were renovating one, we can help get budgets. But We can not afford an air ambulance costs $ 93,000, "he said. Ana Maria works in the City Bank. $ 4,000 daily hospital costs are being covered by donations: Bank friends, family and loans that is taking their families.