Mum fights for life in Dubai with sepsis after falling ill while visiting pregnant daughter… as family beg ‘we need her’

THE household of a Brit mum who is warring for her beingness connected a Dubai infirmary furniture has issued a hopeless plea saying they "need her" and that she is "too young to go".

Lesley Poots, from Northern Ireland, is presently connected beingness enactment aft falling sick with sepsis, conscionable days aft visiting her large girl successful the UAE.

She flew to Dubai connected September 10 to assistance her daughter, who was "going done a challenging pregnancy", retired with childcare, to look aft 2 granddaughters.

The full household was "stricken with a sickness bug" during Lesley's sojourn but the nan was the past to amusement symptoms.

Lesley fell sick connected September 15 but her health took "a crook for the worst" connected September 20 erstwhile she was admitted to hospital for fluids.

She was released soon aft but recovered "unconscious and unresponsive" successful furniture by her daughters and rushed to A&E wherever "world people doctors" aboriginal confirmed she had sepsis.

Six wellness workers spent 2 hours stabilising her with IV drips.

Her household are thankful that paramedics acted arsenic swiftly arsenic they did arsenic "doctors advised she was minutes to an hr distant from passing erstwhile we recovered her" if they hadn't.

Lesley is presently connected a ventilator and suffering from terrible liver nonaccomplishment and has started kidney dialysis, according to girl Lisa Glass who has acceptable up a GoFundMe.

Lisa explained her mum has nary backstage wellness insurance and the household indispensable wage the "mounting infirmary bills".

She claims they'd already forked retired £15,000 successful the archetypal 24 hours but this was lone truthful Lesley could beryllium seen successful A&E and admitted into ICU.

Lisa said: "We were informed she’s excessively sick for america to enactment with her and had to leave.

"This is mum's worst nightmare, I cognize she would beryllium frightened and wouldn’t privation to beryllium near alone."

She explained that she had to alert backmost location contiguous but that the next 12-24 hours are "critical" for her mum's recovery.

Lisa added: "We are embarrassed to inquire for help, but close present I’d bash thing to prevention her and walk much clip with our mum.

"Right present we fishy aesculapian bills to beryllium successful the £000,000s and if mum recovers, we volition person to alert her backmost to the UK.

"It takes the fiscal load of household who volition bash what it takes to marque definite we person funds successful spot for her to combat this.

"Please commune for our Mum. She is excessively young to spell and we request her."

Over £55,000 of the £100,000 extremity has been raised since the fundraiser was launched connected Sunday morning.

Lesley's girl Lauren told The Belfast Telegraph: "It’s been honestly truly overwhelming.

"I was truly embarrassed, arsenic the fundraiser was not a way I would ever privation to take. But everyone has been truthful benignant and truthful generous already.

"We are eternally grateful for the funds we’ve already received and incredibly fortunate that radical are truthful generous, and hopefully we’re successful people’s prayers."