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Family fighting to bring B.C. senior home after she fell into a coma in China
The family faces ICU costs of $1,000 per day and a $400,000 air ambulance fee while over $16,000 has been raised toward repatriation efforts.
- Lilia Avoutova, 78, from Burnaby, B.C., fell into a coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage and stroke two days into a trip to China.
- Due to lack of travel insurance and language barriers, her family faces high medical costs of around $1,000 per day in China's ICU and is struggling to afford bringing her home.
- While transportation options like medical flights cost around $400,000, which is unaffordable, her doctor suggests waiting a few months for safer travel after the bleeding reabsorbs.
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Family fighting to bring B.C. senior home after she fell into a coma in China
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Family fighting to bring B.C. senior home after she fell into a coma in China – Energeticcity.ca
It was supposed to be a joyful family reunion, but instead a British Columbia grandmother is stranded in China in a coma, her family unable to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring her home via air ambulance. Her family says Lilia Avoutova, 78, who is of mixed Chinese and Ukrainian heritage, arrived in Kunming on March 4. But she and her 79-year-old husband, Savout, both from Burnaby, B.C., never made it to Avoutova’s birthplace of X…
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