A Thai worker is in a coma in Taiwan after he consumed freshwater shellfish in March.
Now his desperate wife is trying to raise money to bring him home to Thailand so she can say her last goodbye’s on home soil.
Chatchai Khuridee was one of a group of nine people who consumed the shellfish from a contaminated river.
They had been warned by their boss not to touch the shells but ignored this advice.
They ate the shells – known in Thai as “Koi Cherry” and “Koi Hoi” – both cooked and raw.
While the other eight recovered after headaches and stomach cramps, Chatchai did not.
Parasites have entered his brain and he is in ICU with doctors saying he is brain dead and only hanging on because he is still young. They said he has no chance of recovery.
His father 59 year old Prayong Khuridee said that Chatchai is the second of three sons. The family raised 85,000 by mortgaging a piece of land so that he could go to Taiwan to work at between 17,000 to 25,000 baht a month salary.
After he fell ill his wife Apinya Yaowalak flew out after the family managed to raise 50,000 baht for her trip. By this time he was unresponsive and in ICU.
Now all she is left with is the prospect of trying to raise money so that her husband can be brought back to Thailand to die. They married just four years ago and do not yet have children.
The cost of the repatriation will be at least half a million baht, she said.
An appeal has been set up in the name of Thongwan Khuridee at Krung Thai bank #4310512593
(Source:-Thai Rath)