The parents of the Valencian Ángela Agudo, in a coma in a hospital in Thailand after a critical bike accident, instructed Efe this Monday that insurance coverage protection has run out and that they must switch her to Spain. “She has gotten worse as we speak, she has a fever. They have modified her remedy. The doctors insist that we make the switch as soon as attainable,” mentioned María Ángeles and Manuel, parents of the 24-year-old woman, from the Bangkok hospital on the island of Samui (southern Thailand) the place his daughter is admitted.
Ángela Agudo, a native of Godelleta, a municipality 29 kilometers from the Valencian capital, has been in a coma since October 6 in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital on the vacationer Thai island after having suffered a critical bike accident throughout his journey to the Asian nation.
The younger woman’s parents, visibly affected, affirm that the insurance coverage protection for hospitalization in the heart’s ICU, a small room with simply over 5 bedshas been accomplished, as these in cost of the hospital have knowledgeable you this afternoon. Expenses have risen this Monday to 120,000 bat (3,290 euros) per day, from the earlier 80,000 (2,200 euros), as seen in Efe in the bill delivered to Angela’s parents.
Private switch
The purpose for the improve in worth is as a result of of the remedy he wants to cope with a new an infection, says Manuel with seen misery, who reveals that this Monday he additionally obtained the information that The Government will not be going to be liable for the switchas they’d requested. “It appears they’ve waited till the final day,” he laments, and so they appear upset. “The minister mentioned that she was not going to go away any Spaniard stranded. He left my daughter stranded“.
The household is presently in search of the proper firm to transport Angela on a non-public medical airplane to Valencia, with an approximate funds of 295,000 eurosin accordance to what the brother of the admitted woman, Diego Agudo, instructed Efe final week. The parents, a civil works employee and a home cleaner, watch for the efforts can be closed as soon as attainable and the switch will happen in the subsequent 48 hours.
Thanks to a crowdfunding marketing campaign, the household was ready to increase in a few days the 300,000 euros that had been put aside to cowl hospital bills and the switch to Spain, in addition to donations from relations, mates and neighbors of the city to a checking account created by the shut mates of the younger woman. The household may have to pay taxes to the Treasury each for the cash raised by way of crowdfunding and that deposited into the checking account.
Communication issues
With the added fear of going through the prices of the accident and the switch, Angela’s parents, who’ve been in Thailand since October 8, They guarantee that they’re “very misplaced”who don’t converse English and who talk with the cellular translator. At the hospital, which belongs to the prestigious Bangkok Hospital chain and has 30 facilities all through Thailandhas a Thai to Spanish interpreter to converse with doctors and the monetary division.
“We solely eat bananas and packaged sandwiches,” they are saying. “We don’t need one thing to make us really feel unhealthy. We have to be okay for our daughter,” the mom provides apprehensively. The couple stays in a easy and low cost lodge close to the hospitala heart that has 50 beds and is positioned in the most touristic space of the island. “It’s simply sufficient to sleep. We have to take a look at cash a lot. There are a lot of bills,” they are saying.
Despite the circumstances, they’re grateful for the folks on the island who’ve supplied to assist them, like an Asturian with a taxi firm in Samui and a lodge chain Spanish who invited them to eat on Saturday. “Having soup was excellent for us,” says the mom.
