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LOUISE WARREN has been transferred to Bangkok Hospital Phuket but on May 21 remained seriously injured and in the hospital's intensive care unit.
Original Report
PHUKET: Popular Australian expat teacher Louise Warren faces at least one more operation after being run over and seriously injured by a water truck in Patong.
Ms Warren, aged 28, was pulled from under the water truck in the road behind Jungceylon shopping mall about 10.50pm on Friday.
She had somehow fallen from her motorcycle and slid under the truck.
At least one truck wheel ran over her chest and abdomen, inflicting serious injuries.
''A total of 32 pints of blood were needed to help Ms Warren through her ordeal,'' a spokesperson for Vachira Phuket Hopital in Phuket City said today.
''The hospital could now use more A+ blood.''
Ms Warren is still in the intensive care unit but her condition had improved a little, according to the spokesperson. She was originally taken to Patong Hospital before being transferred to Vachira.
Members of her family were already on Phuket, Phuketwan has been told.
Ms Warren taught at the Patong Language School and had been on Phuket for at least three years.
A disproportionate number of expats and tourists are injured or killed in crashes on Phuket roads, especially in incidents involving motorcycles.
These water trucks are another pestilence of Phuket, in addition to the lack of public transport.
Needless like a goiter, if there was a reasonable water supply, there is rain en masse on this island.
But the guys with the pumps at their waterholes and ponds also sit there, where the local policy is made. They are influential and long-term residents, I am convinced that they have a major bearing on how to deal with the ressource called water.
It is huge business, guarantees profit for some, but makes roads unnecessarily uncertain for many, and took some human lives already.
I do not like the term Third World, but developing country includes the term development, a process with hope for improvement. No signs for decades.
If something deserves the expression third world in Phuket, it's the water supply, drinking water included btw.
Posted by Georg The Viking on May 18, 2015 21:40