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NZ teacher in hospital. What would you do?
Colorado:
What would you do if you were struck by a serious illness while teaching in Korea? You are suddenly hospitalized and unable to work? You discover that your Korean National Insurance doesn’t cover your kind of major illness and you are most probably going to die here in a foreign land?
My next door neighbor, a 47-year-old Native English Teacher from New Zealand, is in the ICU right now at Busan University Hospital in Yangsan with liver failure. He is on the list for a liver transplant and the doctors say that he will not survive without one. He has a rare blood type, O negative. His brother is now en route from New Zealand and is a potential donor, assuming that $50,000 can be found for the operation.
What would you do?
11/23 UPDATE!
Donations may now be made through Paypal to the account of Mick.Milne@gmail.com
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If you are sending funds from within Korea:
Nonghyup Bank (National Agricultural Cooperative Federation)
Name: 마이클 (Michael Milne)
Account - 811057 52 067773
... If you are sending funds from another country to Mick's Korean account:
Bank name: National Agricultural Cooperative Federation
Name: Michael Milne
Account number: 811057 52 067773
Swift Code - NACFKRSEXXX
Address: 75, Chungjeongro 1 Ga
Jung-Gu, Seoul, Korea
Phone: 82-10-7552-1964
Colorado:
The operation, I'm told, is fairly non-invasive for the donor. His liver will regenerate.
kiwikimchi:
WTF? insurance won't cover it?
Why have health insurance if it is basically worthless ? It might give us cheap doctors visits etc but when we really need it like this poor guy does, it won't do jack.
Really feel foor him and his family.
Colorado:
Korean National Health Insurance is pretty good for most things, but if you get cancer or need a transplant, you've got a problem.
Colorado:
Facebook page went up today:
https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=202032269874081
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