A British man who collapsed at his home in Cambodia with pneumonia and was not treated for four days before help arrived has died.
The daughter of 72-year-old Martin Lynch, a London-born NHS drugs counsellor, said she had received bizarre WhatsApp messages from him while he lay on his floor ill at his home.
At the time she thought he was 'being silly' and had just discovered stickers on the messaging tool.
Instead he had suffered a collapse and was ultimately treated in hospital but died yesterday.
University of London student Dannie Lynch, 29, said: “I got some strange messages from him. I just thought he was being silly, I did not know it was a cry for help.”
After Martin was finally discovered and hospitalised, his daughter launched a crowdfunding campaign to try and get the funds to bring him back to London for treatment using an air ambulance, which costs up to £10,000 on top of his medical bills.
Dannie said: “I am the only child of Martin, who raised me single-handedly from infancy. He is currently in the ICU unit of a hospital in Cambodia.
"He is 72 years old. He has severe bronchopneumonia and severe malnutrition. He cannot eat anything solid due to cancer he had eight years ago.
“He has been alone in the hospital since December 22. He cannot speak the language of Cambodia and only a few doctors there speak basic English.”
The campaign had received more than £2,000 when Dannie shared the news today that her father had died while in ICU in the Cambodian hospital.
She said: “I received the news yesterday that Martin has now died. Thank you so much for your support over the last three weeks.
"The money raised will now go towards funeral costs and repatriation of his ashes."
She added that any requests for reimbursement following the news would be dealt with before the page is removed by the end of the week.
