Tourists urged to check travel insurance after family forced to pay £41,000 medical bill

Before setting off to the airport, tourists should always take out travel insurance (Image: Getty) The travel advice and holiday information organisation ABTA has shared a number of checks tourists should consider before buying insurance for their time away. The advice comes after a family of tourists accused a hospital of holding their grandfather 'hostage' on a holiday to Turkey . Malcolm Stocker was admitted to an intensive care unit at the Ahu Hospital in Marmaris, Turkey for nearly one month after being diagnosed with pneumonia and falling into a coma.

Whilst family members of the former pub landlord, who was refused travel insurance due to pre-existing medical conditions, say Malcolm is now out of the induced coma, the Turkish hospital refuses to release him until they pay medical expenses of £41,000. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

setAttribute('src','https://live.primis.tech/live/liveView.

php?s=114945&playerApiId=v114945');document.getElementById('ovp-primis').appendChild(el)}window.

top.addEventListener('primisPlayerInit',e=>{try{if(e.detail&&e.

detail.playerApiId==="v114945"){if(window.document.

getElementsByClassName('jwplayer')[0]){e.detail.float('disable')}}}catch(e){}});window.

addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',()=>{setTimeout(()=>{if(typeof flagTcfLoaded!=='undefined'&&flagTcfLoaded===!0){loadOvpScript()ExpressApp.Log('[Load] OVP flagTcfLoaded',new Date())}else{document.addEventListener("tcfLoaded",()=>{loadOvpScript()ExpressA.