A Brit is fighting for life after being struck down with pneumonia during a dream holiday to Cape Verde.

His family have now made a desperate plea for him to be flown off an island to a proper hospital for further treatment.

Devastated Becky Mazur, 31, fears her husband Peter, 44, will die in a clinic  that does not have the facilities to treat him.

The couple flew out to the African country on April 2 with five-year-old son Oliver for a two-week family holiday.

Peter Mazur in hospital in Cape Verde (
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They were staying in five-star hotel Rio Touareg on the island of Boa Vista, where Peter fell ill.

She said that Peter had been feeling "absolutely fine" when they flew out to the island resort.

Hairdresser Becky, from Felixstowe, Suffolk, says she has now been fighting for five days to get Peter transferred by air ambulance to a hospital in Gran Canaria, 1,500km away.

But she claims she has had "no help"- and the untreated pneumonia has now spread to cover almost Peter's entire left lung.

The family were due to fly home this Tuesday.

Peter suddenly fell ill on the trip (
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Becky said: "We have full medical insurance, and I have spent three days calling them, but nobody will sign him off.

"The insurance company were meant to sign him off  on Saturday night, but nobody did, and now we can't contact the man who was looking into it.

"Nobody has been able to tell us what type of pneumonia it is, and we're in a little pharmacy clinic, so nobody can do anything to help.

"We're locked in here overnight after 5pm. We're living out of a suitcase and eating bread and butter.

"We need to get Pete out of here as soon as possible."

Five or six days into their holiday, Becky said Peter fainted a couple of times and became bedbound.

"We thought it was a bit of heatstroke," she said. "But then I went up from the beach one afternoon to check on him, and his whole body was shaking.

"Some of the hotel staff helped me get him into a wheelchair. But barely any of them speak English.

"At first they told me it was a broken rib. But then I was told he had a lung infection."