It has been a stressful three weeks for a family whose matriarch was recently diagnosed with a serious illness which required emergency surgery overseas.
Her son said the situation had left them scrambling to find a flight out of Barbados so that his mother could be treated at a specialist centre in the United States.
With most airlines being grounded and travel restrictions, he said, they were forced to settle for a charter and pay the high cost of close to $20 000 to get his mother to the US.
The man, who preferred not to be identified, related how he spent several days contacting both US and Canadian airlines. (MB)
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