A British mum fighting for her life in a hospital in faces a £80,000 bill for treatment and her flight home.

Lee Flint, 77, was found unresponsive in her bed days in the African country amid her and husband Jack's charity mission there. She was rushed to Mombasa Intensive Care Unit where medics diagnosed her with grade four kidney and liver failure.

Her won't cover the cost of care or a flight home, and so Lee's family, from Addlestone, Surrey, are left "completely helpless" to their plight. The mum, who was Jack's carer during his own cancer journey which he recently overcame, remains in a critical condition with internal bleeding and blood poisoning.

Lee's son Jamie, 52, said: "It's a living nightmare really. One day she was not responsive in her bed and they had no idea what happened. She has kidney and liver failure so her organs are shutting down. I know she's got an internal bleed. She had blood poisoning and that's what was causing her to fall in and out of consciousness. I was heartbroken and felt completely helpless. I told my dad I have to come out there."

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Jamie, who is a solar engineer, has now set up a to help raise money to fund the bills his family faces. He said his parents made a mistake on their insurance form because Lee did not want to worry Jack about a blood test and scan she had had back in the UK before they left for Kenya.

But the tests were not mentioned on the form as a result, and this has voided her insurance. The first Jack, who finished chemotherapy this year, knew about the test and scan was when his wife fell ill during their charity work. Jamie said: "After my dad had finished his chemotherapy and my mum was his main carer which took a lot out of her, they inevitably made a mistake on the insurance form.

"A few months before that my mum had been to the doctor's [for some blood tests]. My mum didn't want to stress my dad out, she kept it to herself. But in the meantime she was becoming poorly and we didn't realise. My dad was filling out the insurance form on his laptop and made a mistake and that's why it's invalid.

Jamie, a dad of four from Addlestone, continued: "He told me to sit tight at home. I kept myself busy by ripping their bathroom out, so I was going to put in a disabled shower. That's when I thought they were coming home, but mum has got worse and worse. I feel completely helpless, just because I am stuck in England.

"My mum and dad did the question wrong over the phone or the laptop but my dad had just been really poorly with his chemo, my mum had been exhausted. She is a clever lady but she made a mistake. My dad was more concerned about his insurance because he had just had chemo and cancer, he was more concerned about anything that might happen to him than my mum."

The family say they do not know if Lee knew the results of her tests or not as she is now unable to speak. The couple had been doing charity work in Watamu, Kenya for more than 30 years, and tended to stay there for months at a time. This time, they had arrived with 62 kilos of clothing and reading glasses to give to schools and orphanages.

Jamie said: "In 1991 they went to a place called Watamu and were shocked with how little the people had, so they started sponsoring local schools and doctors. They've been tirelessly doing charity work for 30 years, they go a few times a year. My mum lived in Kenya for five years when she was younger, that is why she has a love for the country. My parents have dedicated their lives to helping others and fundraising in the country they love."

Jamie has raised more than half of the target amount through GoFundMe. The dad said what's happened to Lee should be a warning to other travellers when taking out insurance. He said: "Just be absolutely thorough when you do something like this, go over and over it again if you're elderly or have any past history of being poorly.

"You've got to do it and you do feel a bit of anger during these companies, they are what they are, you have to do these things correctly. I wouldn't want this to happen to anyone else. All I want is for my mum to come home but the hospital bills are extortionately high.

"I am absolutely humbled by the people, I'm not great with social media but I feel completely humbled and blessed, it makes me almost cry when I think about it." You can donate to