SINGAPORE — The daughter of a Singaporean who is in a coma has raised enough money to bring him back from Tokyo, and he is set to arrive today.

The man had a heart attack when his family flew to Tokyo on April 19 to celebrate his wife’s cancer remission.

Medical assistance company EMA Global said it has been hired for the 10-hour bed-to-bed medical evacuation, for which a doctor and a nurse, both trained in critical care and aeromedical medicine, have been deployed. The company spokesman said the flight from Tokyo is expected to take six-and-a-half hours on its air ambulance.

The man’s 25-year-old daughter, Ms Eileen Cheong, had successfully raised S$250,000 on fundraising platform Give.Asia and through private donations to get her father home.

She wrote that her father fell into a coma and had to be put on life support after suffering a heart attack.

On the advice of friends, she turned to crowdfunding for help, as her family could not handle the high hospital bills.

Detailing the cost, she said just one week into her father’s hospitalisation, they owed the Japanese hospital approximately S$120,000. And every additional day spent in Japan would mean about S$10,000 in hospitalisation costs.

She added that her father does not hold a life insurance policy, and the family was told they were unlikely to make a successful claim on their travel insurance as he had collapsed due to a pre-existing heart condition.

The family was also hoping to raise money from the appeal to bring her father home, where they will have access to subsidised healthcare and financial aid as well as emotional support from loved ones. Medical evacuations, however, cost anything from S$62,000 on a commercial airline to S$117,000 for a private air ambulance.

Within a few days, 3,025 people had donated S$239,247.69. In an update on Saturday, Ms Cheong had said as of 1pm, the family had raised S$250,000, inclusive of private donations, and that the appeal had been closed.

Thanking donors in a separate update on Sunday, Ms Cheong said her dad’s condition “remains stabilised”.

She said her family did not wish to reveal the exact time and day of their arrival as they wanted “enough space and privacy to make the transfer as safe and smooth as possible”.