Kate Garraway’s ‘desperate bid to save Derek’s life’ as they plan to undergo pioneering treatment

Kate Garraway is set to take husband Derek on a “desperate bid” to save his life in an attempt to bring some hope back to their family.

The television presenter, 55, from Abingdon, has been sharing updates on her husband’s health after he became the longest-suffering Covid patient in the UK.

Derek was previously a political advisor and spent 13 months in the hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, before he was allowed to return home.

Kate and Derek have a family home with their two children, Darcey, 16 and Billy,13, which has had to be refurbished to be accessible for Derek, who now requires round the clock care.

The presenter spent tens of thousands of pounds adapting their London home to cater for Derek’s health.

The couple have been together for 13 years, with Kate sharing that she has been with her husband throughout his journey as he fought to survive.

The Good Morning Britain presenter shared that her husband is “very damaged” after falling into a coma for several months after contracting coronavirus in 2020.

Kate has since shared that she plans to take Derek on a trip and they are set to fly across the world for him to undergo pioneering treatment.

She has said she wants to push ahead with the new treatment as she sees the trip as “her last hope” to make her husband healthy again.

The presenter has previously taken Derek to Mexico for two clinical trials in both 2021 and 2022 which proved unsuccessful.

A source told Bella Magazine that this was Kate’s “desperate bid” to save her husband Derek with the television presenter willing to “try anything.”

They also revealed that the presenter had looked into “a number of experimental” options across the globe in an effort to save him.

Despite her husband’s condition, Kate has been “refusing to give up” in the hopes of having her husband return to normal.

Kate also recently appeared on Giovanna Fletcher’s ‘Journey to Magic’ where she shared what it was like to live with husband Derek and their two children.

Kate spoke about Darcey and Billy where she shared: “They’re ok, they’re good. It is challenging, he’s still very, very damaged. He still can’t really move, still can’t really speak, still fed through tubes, and so there’s a long road ahead.

“But if you compare it to last Christmas or the Christmas before, when he was still in hospital then you can see improvement.

“It’s just, you just want it to be quicker and faster, of course, like everybody would. But it’s a challenging one - he spent most of last year in the hospital as well for various different things, so it was lovely to have him home.”

The GMB presenter also revealed that most of the time her husband “can’t do anything” as she spoke about his illness.

She said: “There are some days where he literally cannot do anything and it’s like the computer is switched off. He cannot move, and he’s in so much pain as we are manipulating him, trying to get him more mobile so that he doesn’t regress.”

Kate has shared her journey since Derek caught covid, including making an award winning documentary and writing her own book.