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Let’s help bring Crisanta
Sampang back home
Vancouver author, filmmaker
and Filipino community advocate
Crisanta Sampang needs help.
Sampang, who is also a
contributor with Philippine Asian News
Today and the ReyFort Media Group,
suffered a heart attack while visiting
family in the Philippines.
Hospital costs are piling up,
and she needs to be brought back to
Vancouver for treatment.
A GoFundMe page has been
created to raise funds to help
Sampang and her family in arranging
her return.
The GoFundMe page was
created by former Vancouver Sun
editor Joanne Blain, a friend of
Sampang and Sampang’s partner
Daniel Wood, also a writer.
“After being transferred to a
specialized cardiac hospital in Manila,
she was scheduled for surgery to
implant a stent. That news was bad
enough, but after further evaluation,
doctors there determined that she
needs open-heart surgery, a far more
serious procedure,” according to the
account at the fundraising page.
“Crisanta did not have any
travel health insurance and the costs
were already piling up. But with the
cost of open-heart surgery in Manila
estimated in six figures, along with
the additional expense of Crisanta
having to remain in the Philippines for
as long as six months to recover on
her own, Daniel scrambled to find an
alternative.
“Daniel and a Vancouver friend
contacted MedEvac Canada to try to
find a way to get her home, and settled
on an emergency medivac strategy.
They’ve arranged for Crisanta’s
daughter Catherine, who has some
medical training, to fly from her home
in Seattle to Manila, and she is there
now to provide her mother with some
comfort. And under MedEvac Canada’s
guidance, Catherine and a MedEvac
doctor will accompany Crisanta on
a 14-hour Philippine Airlines flight
to Vancouver (in business class for
Crisanta’s comfort) on March 20.
“Obviously, Daniel is immensely
relieved that Crisanta will soon be
home with him and in the care of the
Canadian medical system. But in the
meantime, Daniel and Crisanta are
facing tens of thousands of dollars in
bills for her Manila hospital care, the
MedEvac Canada services, and airfare
— all unexpected costs that they really
can’t afford.”
The fundraising efforts aims to
collect $10,000.
To donate: https://www.gofundme.
com/help-bring-crisanta-home
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