Family's plea to bring hospitalised Katie home

RELATIVES SAY DOCTORS USING 'INCORRECT' TREATMENT FOR HER RARE CONDITION

- By MAXINE DENTON

THE family of a young woman from Cornwall who has been hospitalised in Spain have said they are living a nightmare as doctors there are refusing to cooperate with them.

Katie Hollis' desperate family are now trying to get her back to the UK so she can be treated at a hospital at home.

The 22-year-old veterinary nurse from Launceston flew out to Spain on June 13 to spend a week on holiday with her grandmother who lives in Alicante. The trip was supposed to be a much needed break for Katie, who has functional neurological disorder (FND) a medical condition that describes a problem with how the brain receives and sends information to the rest of the body which leaves her feeling very tired.

However, while on a day trip to a small island off the Spanish coast last Wednesday, Katie had a seizure and was flown back to the mainland by air ambulance to be taken to hospital. Since then, Katie's sister Bethany Snewin said, the Spanish doctors have been refusing to cooperate with her family and are sticking to an incorrect treatment plan for her.