Angela Agudo, the 24-year-old victim of a serious motorcycle accident in Thailand on October 6, is already admitted to hospital. ICU of La Fe hospital in Valence after traveling from this Asian country on a medical plane paid for with private funds after the government refused to grant her special transport to bring her back to Spain.
As the family confirmed to ABC, the Valencian born in Godelleta was admitted to the reference hospital center of the Valencian Community after a long intercontinental air trip with stopovers in Dubai and Zurich, during which she was always accompanied by her parents. and a team made up of a doctor, a nurse and three pilots.
After her arrival, Angela was referred directly to the La Fe intensive care unit due to her critical health condition, where she will continue her convalescence after a month in which she debated between life and death in a La Fe hospital on the Thai island of Samui. , with a daily medical cost of 5,000 euros. “He is still in a coma and his condition is still serious”her cousin Mariam told this newspaper.
Angela’s family paid for the rental of the medical plane with funds raised through donations when the case became known in the media and on social networks. In just a few hours they managed to raise just over 300,000 euros, although they still tried to get help from the government, through the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, to charter a military plane in order to transport the young woman more safely, as was done last May. Álex García from Bilbao, also from Thailand.
However, the request for help was refused and communicated by the head of Defense herself, Marguerite Roblesto the mayor of Godelleta, Amparo Pardo, to whom he personally informed that the Government had deployed all its medical planes from the Aeroevacuation Medical Unit of the Air and Space Force (UMAER) to the Canary Islands .
Robles explained to the first Valencian mayor that Angela’s situation was not the same as that of the Spaniard repatriated to Bilbao, since her family had already spent 500,000 euros on two medical planes which ultimately failed. “We cannot bring in everyone who asks,” Pardo told the minister.
Collection and taxes
The young woman’s family managed to raise 301,611 euros thanks donations to cover medical costs -5,000 euros per day- and the medical plane, even if the first intention is that the government facilitates the trip and can thus donate the money to a charitable cause.
But they had to pay for it. And different elements must be subtracted from the money received. The first, the GoFundme commissions, which amount to 15,619 eurosas reported by ABC. Furthermore, according to calculations by financial experts consulted by this newspaper, they will have to pay taxes close to 37% gift taxan amount which could exceed 112,000 euros.
