The family of Ángela Agudo, the young Valencian woman who is in a coma admitted to the ICU of a hospital in Thailand since last October 6 after suffering a motorcycle accident, has managed to raise a total of 307,111 euros during the last two days. This money will be used to help cover the high cost of his hospitalization, which amounts to 5,000 euros per day, and his return to Spain.
For this reason, open collection has been closed on a platform crowdfunding having achieved the initially set objective. In addition, he assures that he will donate every euro left over after hospitalization and return home.
Angela remains in a coma and stable, without suffering any crisis.. This Wednesday a tracheostomy was performed which “went well”, after which over the next few days we will try to remove artificial respiration so that she can breathe on her own. “We have no more news,” explained his brother, Diego Agudo.
The family has reached the marked limit of 300,000 euros in the collection digital to cover hospitalization and return to Spainso you have disabled the option to make donations. At this time, it is unknown if they will have money available to pay for the medical plane back to Spain or if there will be money left over once the hospitalization has been deducted. “I hope so,” the brother wished, and stressed that they are waiting for “the doctors to say that she is ready to travel.”
In any case, Diego Aguado has stressed that, if there were money left over from the crowdfunding on the GoFundMe platform, Ángela’s family will contact “some institution supportivesome association that needs it or a person in the same conditions”. “We would donate every last cent we had left.“, he guaranteed.
According to what he reported this past Wednesday, the medical insurance that his sister took out for this trip only covers up to 75,000 eurosso they only had three days of coverage left.
Meanwhile, the family has asked for help from Government to bring the young woman back to Spain on a medical plane, with the intention that she can continue her recovery and treatment in a Valencian hospital. “The papers have already been submitted. We need a solution, be it from the Ministry of Defense or wherever.but let them act now because in the end we need that answer and to be 100% sure that we are going to have that help,” said the brother.
“Godelleta wants Ángela in her house”
In the young woman’s town, Godelleta, in Valenciawas held this Wednesday an emotional rally of support to raise awareness about the situation where Angela and her family live. With the motto “Godelleta wants Angela at home”, the family installed a tarp on the balcony of the City Hall to raise awareness about this cause. “A day that reflects the solidarity and affection of our municipality,” expresses the council on social networks.
The young woman’s brother has been “super grateful” with the neighbors seeing how they have shown solidarity with Ángela. In addition, he highlighted that the mayor of Godelleta, Amparo Pardo, contacted them “from the first moment” to give them all her energy and support.
The events took place on October 6, when The young woman and her partner suffered a motorcycle accident just 40 meters from where his hotel was. They lost control of the vehicle and fell to the ground: she remained in coma and he has bruises and abrasions from the asphalt, as well as a fractured wrist and elbow but he is out of danger.
The family received a call from Angela’s partner telling them what had happened and automatically set out to book plane tickets to travel to Thailand. “For us it was obviously something shocking, although we already knew what we were going to find. But well, in the end we have to be strong“commented Diego, who returned to Spain while his parents remain in the country.
