Hope for Natalie Creane.: This petition will be presented to the courts and the people responsible.

After going to the Kempinski managed Emirates Palace Hotel for a weekend break with her husband and stepson, Natalie opened the door to the wardrobe in her hotel room to put shoes in the bottom. A loose wooden panel high up in the top of the wardrobe that should have been fitted to cover the audio visual unit fell, hitting her on the front of the head, this panel was so high up above the wardobe, Natalie would have needed a ladder to reach it and a key to open it. It was also set back, therefore, hit her on her temporal lobe (the front part of her head) A member of the hotel’s staff found Natalie unconscious in the room. Rather than call an ambulance, the hotel’s duty manager took her to hospital by car. The Hotel have never denied the accident took place and they along with the Kempinski group and the insurers, ADNIC, were all found guilty of gross negligence almost a year ago. Since then, nothing has been done. Delays continue to happen for no reason and we are no further forward whatsoever. It seems very clear that due process is not being followed whatsoever. Six years have passed since the accident and over three years of litigation.

After the accident it immediately became clear that Natalie was very unwell. With no prior history of such problems, she also began to suffer from horrendous seizures and was suffering from the horrendous effects of a major concussion and brain injury and was, therefore, incapacitated for months and months which caused her to develop a deadly pulmonary embolism and DVT. The Emirates Palace Hotel referred the family to its insurance company. After talks with the company broke down, the family was faced with the hotel’s lawyers. Forced to take their case to court, a full two years after the accident, the family is still fighting for justice now – almost five years on.

Natalie was a Regional Director in a Global firm at the time of the accident, with an incredible career and future ahead of her with her future husband by her side.

Natalie suffers from Post Traumatic Intractable Refractory Epilepsy and Traumatic Brain Injury, she has since been diagnosed with several other serious medical conditions as complications of her condition and medications. Natalie has no viable veins due to so many cannulas and needles in them caused them to collapse, so she now has a permanent intravenous central catheter in her arm which leads through into her heart. Her seizures cause her to collapse unconscious suddenly and she has frequently sustained serious injuries during these seizures, including broken bones and fractures. Natalie has been in six comas and on ventilators, had blood clots in her lung and leg, blood transfusions, extreme blood toxicity, paralysis, temporary loss of sight, massive hair loss, severe debilitating headaches, temporary loss of speech, confusion, permanent memory loss, insomnia, constant infections due to suppressed immunity and over 25 stays in intensive care. Natalie has lost her career, her independence and has had over 50 admissions to hospitals over the last almost 6 years most via emergency.

Natalie has just been discharged from ICU coming out of her sixth induced coma and being ventilated in Dubai, Rashid Hospital, where she was receiving emergency care after her third bout of Pneumonia caused an imbalance in the medication levels in her blood and caused massive seizures that would not stop. The infections are no longer responding to treatment. She urgently needs to receive specialist neurological help in a centre that specialises in Traumatic Brain Injuries and Post Traumatic Epilepsy that cannot be controlled and is as serious as Natalies. This costs hundreds of thousands of pounds/dollars and surgery even more. She needs to have her medications assessed and have specialist cognitive therapy amongst many many other types of urgent treatment. They have silently fought to try and get the hotel to step up and admit its liability for an incident which has resulted in such appalling consequences for Natalie and her family.

Each seizure carries with it more risk of severe brain damage. Her brain injury has never been properly treated. The years of medications and hospitalisations are causing serious secondary complications.

All Natalie and her family want is a fair and fast resolution to the case so that they may get the treatment and support she needs and not be crippled by the ever growing medical bills.

After almost six years of battling quietly, afraid of prejudicing Natalie’s position with the hotel and its insurance company, the family has finally broken its silence and welcomes public support for Natalie. It remains the family’s hope that Emirates Palace Hotel does what it should have done in the first place – admit liability for the accident and help Natalie before it’s too late. Doctors have told Natalie if she has another large seizure she could die. This is unlike any petition we have done before. The petition will be presented to the courts and will be added to Natalie's case. Perhaps people power will help push things forward - all we can do is try. There are over 30,000 people supporting Natalie on her page and hundreds of thousands of people elsewhere who have read and supported the family. Please share and share this petition and encourage others to add their names to it. Natalie has no medical insurance and no company will cover her now unless they put up massive amounts of money and even then it is unlikely she could be covered. We need your help to put this right - the more people support this petition the more chance we have of being heard. Thank you to so much. Your support means everything.