A British woman died in front of her partner's eyes after a "routine" hospital procedure to treat her migraine went "horribly wrong".
Emma Grainger, 51, spent 18 months in a coma after attending a Chinese clinic for prescribed hydrocortisone injections that led to her breath and heart stopping in February 2021.
Doctors revived her heart but Emma still could not breathe and she fell into a coma, her partner Adrian Casey said.
Mr Casey said his partner "fought on life support" for over a year, but sadly passed away in hospital on September 18.
The man, who had been crowdfunding on GoFundMe to pay her medical bills of nearly £200,000, is now raising funds for her funeral and cremation, and to bring her remains to the UK.
He said the estimated funeral costs are around £4,000, in addition to the costs he has already incurred during her care.
The couple, from Bridgnorth, Shropshire, moved to Shanghai, China, in 2019 to work as teachers.
Ms Grainger, originally from Worcester, West Midlands, had struggled to get medication for migraines as she could not access a drug she used in the UK.
Her partner said she had been going to a clinic for investigation work and had been prescribed eight hydrocortisone injections, but "on number five... [I] can't put it any more bluntly, she died, she stopped breathing", BBC News reported.
He said he had not been allowed to see her for seven weeks "with the claim that it's Covid controls, but the reality is they want their money."
Mr Casey, who is now taking legal action against the clinic, previously said he was having a "nightmare with Chinese lawyers and insurance companies, who are simply not paying what they should be."
He added: "I am struggling obviously with... the emotional upset of losing Emma and just the general complex bureaucracy."
