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Holiday "nightmare" in Egypt: Family falls seriously ill in resort - son (6) dies

2022-07-07T13:11:35.723Z


Holiday "nightmare" in Egypt: Family falls seriously ill in resort - son (6) dies Created: 07/07/2022, 14:58 By: Richard Strobl A beach in Sharm el-Sheich, Egypt, on the Red Sea. (Iconic image) © Namir Galal/Almasry Alyoum A family is believed to have contracted food poisoning while on vacation in Egypt. While the father won the fight to survive, the son (6) succumbed to the disease. Sharm El


Holiday "nightmare" in Egypt: Family falls seriously ill in resort - son (6) dies

Created: 07/07/2022, 14:58

By: Richard Strobl

A beach in Sharm el-Sheich, Egypt, on the Red Sea.

(Iconic image) © Namir Galal/Almasry Alyoum

A family is believed to have contracted food poisoning while on vacation in Egypt.

While the father won the fight to survive, the son (6) succumbed to the disease.

Sharm El Sheikh - A real holiday tragedy has now occurred in Egypt.

A six-year-old child has died and the father remains in poor condition in the hospital.

According to a report in the Italian newspaper

La Stampa

, a young family from Palermo who had been planning their vacation in the sunny paradise of Sharm El Sheikh for months was affected.

The 46-year-old father, his six-year-old son and the four-month-old woman were staying at a holiday resort in Egypt and felt ill last Friday.

"They kept throwing up," the woman's brother told the newspaper.

It hit the father and son worse, the woman had milder symptoms.

Holiday tragedy in Egypt: father unconscious in hospital, son dies

"The child was very ill.

My brother in law thought he drank water in the pool.

But it couldn't just be that," the woman's brother continues.

The family therefore went to a doctor on site.

He gave them an IV and pills to treat them.

After that, the family was sent back to their room.

But there was little improvement.

You should have thrown up more.

The doctor was then called again on Saturday morning, who asked the family to call again in the afternoon.

The family did not want to wait that long: they called an ambulance and drove to the hospital.

The boy in particular was doing very badly, reports the uncle.

Family father fights for survival on holiday in Egypt - "Nightmare"

The six-year-old died in the clinic despite an hour-long attempt at resuscitation.

The family man had arrived at the hospital unconscious with "symptoms of incipient kidney failure, with an enlarged kidney and breathing problems".

He is apparently still being treated in Egypt.

The family is now fighting for the father to be relocated back to Italy.

But this has not happened so far.

"We have no definite information about my brother-in-law's condition," the woman's brother told

La Stampa

.

"We don't see a way out of this nightmare, we want to experience our pain together at home in Italy, but we don't know how to do it," he continued.

Accordingly, the family man has kidney and heart problems, he cannot get up and has an oxygen saturation of 80 percent.

The consulate was informed, it said.

A transfer should take place as soon as the health situation improves and the hospital gives the green light.

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Source: merkur

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