DOCTORS treating Newport mum Lisa Jarvis - who fell ill during a family holiday abroad - are to try to wake her from the coma that has hospitalised her for three weeks.

The 28-year-old mother-of-three has been in hospital since suffering a fit on June 9, the second day of a week-long holiday.

Having spent more than two weeks in hospital on the island of Fuerteventura, Mrs Jarvis was transferred earlier this week to a hospital on the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria.

Her husband Andrew is back at her bedside having been unable to join her when she was first transferred, and then being unable to find a flight or hotel accommodation until the family's insurers intervened.

Doctors in the Canaries believe Mrs Jarvis can be flown home by air ambulance but medical assessors for her insurers disagree.

"I understand they are going to try waking her, probably by stopping her sedation gradually, and hopefully she will come round," said Mrs Jarvis' mother Jennifer Knock, of St Julian's, Newport.

"I think they arehoping she has another fit so they can try to monitor what's happening to her."

Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs Jarvis' three children - seven-year-old Jade, six-year-old Lauren, and five-year-old Caitlin - are wondering when their parents are coming home. The girls returned when the week's holiday was over.

"They've been all right but they haven't been sleeping well," said Mrs Knock.

"They've never been apart from their mum for this length of time. It's three weeks since they saw her."