Sight-Saving Trip Blow for Great-Gran Dorothy

The Citizen Gloucestershire › August 04, 2010

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PIONEERING surgery to save a Hardwicke great grandmother's sight could be cancelled - as her family cannot get insurance for her to travel to China. Dorothy Leach, 76, of Springfield, Hardwicke, woke up one morning in February last year to discover she had gone blind. She was diagnosed with giant cell arteritis, an inflammatory disease of blood vessels. Doctors in the UK say they cannot restore her sight, but one Chinese hospital offers pioneering stem cell treatment that could restore her vision.

The family has managed to raise more than Pounds 10,000, and with more money set to arrive, had booked the hospital dates for September 16. Her daughter Vicky said: "Trying to find insurance for the trip is proving a nightmare. "We don't mind paying for it, but everyone says no. "I have explained that the hospital will cover anything that arises from the treatment there, so if anything went wrong, it would not mean a claim.

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