Family and friends of a young British traveller injured in a auto accident are making a global appeal for blood donors.
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Lucy Hill was in a moped crash in Thailand.
Patients who are A-negative need the same blood type, but in an emergency they can be given O-negative, which is a “universal” type, suitable for most blood groups.
The effort was a success, with strangers queuing up in the Maharaja Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital to give blood on Monday morning, reported the Manchester Evening News.
On Sunday, one of her travel companions, Australian student Lauren Hall, launched an appeal on Facebook for someone with Type A blood to come to Chiang Mai to help save her friend.
Mr Burns added: “Compassionate people from all over the world came together over the space of 24 hours for a girl from bury!!”. Luce’s received the blood transfusion she needs, she’s still in intensive care but is out off immediate danger!!’ “Thank you to social media, the people that shared the status and the people who donated their blood because really that’s what made it happen!”
Only 7 per cent of the Caucasian population have type A negative blood, but it’s even rarer in Asia, where it’s shared by only 0.5 per cent, according to the Red Cross.
Hill was just a week into her travelling when she was hit by a vehicle that was allegedly travelling on the wrong side of the road. ‘It doesn’t take long and it will do a great thing. She is now in intensive care and has had emergency surgery but is needing blood transfusions.
“They have had to shave her head, which I think was a shock to my wife when she first saw her lying in hospital”.
A social media campaign was started by her family and friends back home, pleading for the help of Western travellers in the area.
Lucy’s family said those who had given their time to help may have helped to save her life.
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Ms Hill, a Leeds Beckett University graduate, has since received a transfusion and is in a “critical but stable” condition, her aunt told the BBC.
