The parents of the Valencian woman in a coma in Thailand: “The doctors insist that she must be transferred to Spain as soon as possible”

The parents of the Valencian Ángela Agudo, in a coma in a hospital in Thailand after a serious motorcycle accident, they told Efe this Monday that insurance coverage has run out and that they must transfer her to Spain. “She has gotten worse today, she has a fever. They have changed her medication. The doctors insist that we make the transfer as soon as possible,” said María Ángeles and Manuel, parents of the 24-year-old girl, from the hospital. bangkok from the island of Samui (southern Thailand) where his daughter is admitted.

Ángela Agudo, a native of Godelleta, a municipality 29 kilometers from the Valencian capital, He has been in a coma since October 6. in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital on the Thai tourist island after suffering a serious motorcycle accident during his trip to the Asian country.

The young woman’s parents, visibly affected, affirm that the insurance coverage for hospitalization in the center’s ICU, a small room with just over five bedshas been completed, as those in charge of the hospital have informed you this afternoon. Expenses have risen this Monday to 120,000 bat (3,290 euros) per day, from the previous 80,000 (2,200 euros), as seen in Efe in the invoice delivered to Angela’s parents.

Private transfer

The reason for the increase in price is because of the medication he needs to deal with a new infection, says Manuel with visible distress, who reveals that this Monday he also received the news that The Government is not going to be responsible for the transferas they had requested. “It seems they have waited until the last day,” he laments, and they seem upset. “The minister said that she was not going to leave any Spaniard stranded. He left my daughter stranded“.

The family is currently looking for the right company to transport Angela on a private medical plane to Valencia, with an approximate budget of 295,000 eurosaccording to what the brother of the admitted woman, Diego Agudo, told Efe last week. The parents, a civil works worker and a house cleaner, wait for the efforts can be closed as soon as possible and the transfer will take place in the next 48 hours.

Thanks to a crowdfunding campaign, the family was able to raise in a few days the 300,000 euros that had been set aside to cover hospital expenses and the transfer to Spain, in addition to donations from relatives, friends and neighbors of the town to a bank account created by the close friends of the young woman. The family will have to pay taxes to the Treasury both for the money raised through crowdfunding and that deposited into the bank account.

Communication problems

With the added worry of facing the costs of the accident and transportation, Angela’s parents, who have been in Thailand since October 8, They assure that they are “very lost”who do not speak English and who communicate with the mobile translator. At the hospital, which belongs to the prestigious Bangkok Hospital chain and has 30 centers throughout Thailandhas a Thai to Spanish interpreter to speak with doctors and the financial department.

“We only eat bananas and packaged sandwiches,” they say. “We don’t want something to make us feel bad. We have to be okay for our daughter,” the mother adds apprehensively. The couple stays in a simple and cheap hotel near the hospitala center that has 50 beds and is located in the most touristic area of ​​the island. “It’s just enough to sleep. We have to look at money a lot. There are a lot of expenses,” they say.

Despite the circumstances, they are grateful for the people on the island who have offered to help them, like an Asturian with a taxi company in Samui and a hotel chain Spanish who invited them to eat on Saturday. “Having soup was very good for us,” says the mother.