Medical Rescue’s clinical operations manager Josh Campbell says the group offered to fly Lucky home on a plane that includes “essentially a mobile intensive care unit”, complete with a retrieval physician and a specilaist intensive care pediatric nurse.
“It’s a very delicate operation. as you could imagine,” he told 7NEWS.
However Lucky’s condition needs to improve enough for her to be transported.
Her mother Honey Ahimsa said on Friday it was still “too risky and dangerous for Lucky to fly in such a critical condition”.
More than $160,000 has been raised to bring her home, in a GoFundMe campaign.
Ahimsa was at her Bali home with her partner Pan, their son and Lucky on Monday when she noticed the baby was struggling to breathe.
“I thought that I could help her, just get sleep and give her my milk,” Ahimsa told 7NEWS on Thursday.
“I tried to help her, just like normal when babies get sick, they just need sleep… but then she stopped drinking my milk.
“She got really tired and then I looked at her stomach, and you could see her lungs (pulsating).
“So, we quickly rushed her to hospital and … she started going cold and losing her colour.”
Lucky needs a respirator to breathe and without specialist equipment, doctors have been unable to diagnose the exact infection.
She has since been transferred to the hospital’s intensive care unit and remains in a critical condition.
Doctors have told the Melbourne-raised mother the hospital is not equipped to save her life, meaning they have to front the cost to move Lucky elsewhere.
“We’re speaking with the air ambulance, so we can fly her to Australia,” she said. “We don’t want to lose her.”
Ahimsa says Lucky’s condition is deteriorating daily as the hospital bills continue to grow.
“Every day is very expensive … like one day is $8000 Australian,” she said.
“She’s only seven weeks old and she’s beautiful. She’s such a sweet little baby girl. She’s very gentle and we really just want her to live a long life.”
A fundraiser launched by a family friend said a doctor told the family on Wednesday, Lucky “may not make it through this”.
“They are unsure whether or not antibiotics can work as she’s in such an unstable critical condition,” organiser Natalie Saper wrote, adding that Lucky requires a minimum of two weeks in hospital.
The Department of Foreign Affairs told 7NEWS it is investigating the situation.
