Ángela Agudo, the 24-year-old Spaniard in a coma after a serious motorcycle accident in Thailandleft the Asian country on Tuesday in a private medical plane bound for Spain. accompanied by her parents and a medical team. Upon her arrival in the country, she will be admitted to the Hospital Universitario de La Fe, in Valencia.
The plane, belonging to the Swiss private rescue company Rega, took off this Tuesday from the airport on the Thai island of Samui, in the south of the country, and before arriving in Spain, it is expected to two stopovers, one in Dubai and another in Zurich. This was explained by the parents of the young woman, María Ángeles and Manuel.
They and a team made up of a doctor, a nurse and three pilots are traveling in the plane with the patient, who remains in a coma and is stable in critical condition.. A native of Godelleta, a municipality 29 kilometers from the Valencian capital, Agudo was in a coma in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital since October 6. Bangkok from the Thai tourist island after suffering a serious motorcycle accident during his trip to the Asian country.
Thanks to a crowdfunding campaign, the family raised in a few days the 300,000 euros they had set as their goal 300,000 to cover hospital expenses and the transfer to Spain. They also received donations from relatives and neighbors in a bank account set up by the young woman’s own relatives, money that will have to be taxed to Treasury.
Her parents, who traveled all the way to Thailand to be with their daughter after the accident, indicated that they will have to wait for the final calculation of the levies to know whether the money collected will cover both the plane and the income portion hospital admission that was not subsidized by the insurance.
The hospital expenses amounted last Monday to 120,000 bat, or 3,290 euros per day. In spite of everything, his parents have on several occasions lamented that the Spanish government has not taken charge for their transfer.