An Egyptian hospital turned off a British gay man’s life support May 30 and are refusing to send his body home, reports Gay Star News.
Adrian Nicholas King, 39, had been on vacation in Cairo, Egypt when he suffered kidney failure and fell into a coma.
Elaine Gilbert, King’s mother, told Gay Star News there was an issue with how her son filled out his insurance form.
May 25, Gilbert was first told King had been in a coma for four days. The following Tuesday, she was told he had died at 4 a.m. that morning. Without notice, the hospital had turned off the dialysis machine.
In the same phone call, she was asked to pay a $51,600 hospital bill otherwise they would not release his body.
‘It’s disgusting they would do that to a human life,’ Gilbert told Gay Star News. ‘They’re supposed to save lives. But money comes first.’
His boyfriend, Eric, and King’s father, have been making as many calls as they can to bring their loved one home. The British Foreign Office said, “We are advising them on their options and liaising with the Egyptian authorities on their behalf.”
