Spokane's Brandi Gallagher, 34, is loaded into an ambulance Tuesday in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to be transferred to a different hospital. Gallagher's family says she was held hostage at Saint Luke's Medical Center, and they were ordered to pay $55,000 to secure her treatment and release. (Contributed Facebook photo)
A woman and her Vancouver family say she was held hostage by a hospital in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, earlier this week, and they were ordered to pay $55,000 to secure her release, after she was injured on vacation.
Spokane’s Brandi Gallagher, 34, was vacationing with two girlfriends at an all-inclusive resort in Cabo San Lucas, when she fell on a metal spike and punctured her lung in two places Sunday night, said Gallagher’s aunt, Kim Gallagher Tortora, 60, of Vancouver.
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