Staff at a Thai hospital are refusing to perform surgery on a New Zealand man because he can't pay the bill for previous operations, according to his family.
Sean Kenzie, 27, was seriously injured when he was knocked off his moped last week and has been in a Phuket hospital since.
Both of his lungs were punctured and collapsed, his kidney was ruptured and he broke a number of bones including his jaw, his mother Nadine Mouritsen told Fairfax.
He is now conscious but his family say he needs surgery that hospital staff are refusing to carry out until a $16,000 hospital bill is paid.
Ms Mouritsen says family and friends are trying frantically to raise the money.
Mr Kenzie has travel insurance through Covermore but after the accident he was told this did not extend to riding scooters or mopeds.
Ms Mouritsen said care at the hospital had been largely okay, but there were one or two incidents which were worrying.
"There was an instance where he wasn't getting any of the medication he needs, and that was when we called Foreign Affairs and they must have helped because that night he was given his medication."
NZN