A Regina couple without medical insurance has found themselves trapped in the Philippines after an accident.
Chris and Joefe Lucmayon, Philippines natives, had been saving for a trip there while working at Kuya Wayne’s Sari Sari Store in Regina, according to a
CBC News report. The couple decided to celebrate the store’s second anniversary with a vacation to a resort in Cebu, Philippines and a visit with family.
However, their trip took a dark turn following Chris’s decision to ride the resort’s waterslide. At a sharp turn in the slide, he slipped off and fell to the ground.
“He dropped and it was like a three-storey building and when he fell, he hit his head,” Lynne Mae Ast, Joefe’s sister, told
CBC News.
Chris sustained a fractured back, a collapsed lung and brain trauma. He has now been in and out of surgery in the Philippines for more than a month. With no insurance, the bills have risen to about $50,000.
Ast is now trying to raise money for her brother-in-law to return to Canada, and to help pay for his recovery, CBC News reported. All sales from the Kuya Wayne’s Sari Sari Store on Sunday will be donated to the Lucmayons, and there will be donation boxes in the store to help pay Chris’s medical bills.
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