Actress Denise Dowse is in a serious battle for her health. 

The 64-year-old is currently hospitalized in a coma while she fights a severe form meningitis, her sister shared on social media on Aug. 7.

"I am requesting support and prayers be offered me and my sister, and my only immediate family Denise Dowse," Tracey Dowse shared to her sister's Instagram and Facebook page. "She is currently in the hospital in a coma brought on by a virulent form of meningitis. Her doctors do not know when she will come out of the coma as it was not medically induced."