The wife and I stay in a two bedroom villa for the winter .The second bedroom is for friends and relatives rotating in and out.
Our nephew ,new wife and 1 year old baby were with us this past Feb. The baby ended up with an ear infection from the flight down
which ended up with siezures that they couldn't control.We told the front desk and they called a private ambulance.The ride took only 30 minutes
My wife and nephew and his wife rode in the back.Halfway they pulled over as my nephew was white from riding so fast in the back .They gave him oxygen and put him in the front.Three days later they were still in the Sav hospital.Somewhere around 100 people were in the waiting room.Anger and frustration was in everybodies face.During the night the police came in three times to defuse frustrations.They gave the baby a spinal tap without anestetia to rule out menegitis .They took the medicine that the parents had brought along and refused to let them administer them.A call back home to their baby doctor to assure they were doing the right thing angered the Sav dr. saying she knew how to handle this.Their dr. back home told the parents to get the baby to the U.S. as quick as they could as time was of the essence.Multiple siezures are not good.The parents put down two credit cards for $18,000 for med vac.The hospital would not give medvac any info.Three days after arriving at the hospital the medvac ambulance came with 2 American Dr./nurses and immediately administered the medicine the parents had and flew them to a Florida hospital where they stayed for 4 days before they flew home.
The private ambulance ride to Sav was $50 paid in advance.They were there in 5 minutes.The wife and I will carry insurance from now on.We also dicussed which hospital we would like to be brought to with other long stayers in our complex and we all agreed to take he extra time to go to Mobay than Sav. Hope this helps with the discussion.We certainly don't want to go through that again.
Farmer