Friends of popular Brisbane restaurateur Andrew Park have raised almost $240,000 in just one day to evacuate him to his home in Australia after he suddenly collapsed while visiting Thailand.
Park suffered a catastrophic health incident related to her diabetes in Bangkok last week.
He Bring Parky home The page on online fundraising and crowdfunding platform mycause was quickly created to fund Mr. Park’s treatment and emergency medical evacuation.
As of Thursday afternoon, 395 donations have raised nearly $240,000 of the $250,000 goal.
Following the diabetic episode in Thailand, Mr Park went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated, suffering a brain injury in the process.
Park is being treated at a Bangkok hospital, where he remains unconscious and in stable condition.
Park, a former Queensland honorary consul to Thailand, is also a former adviser to former foreign minister Alexander Downer.
“We want to do everything we can to ensure Andrew’s best chance of recovery, while reducing pressures on Wasana and his children Campbell and Lachlan,” the mycause page states (pictured, Mr Park with his family ).
Park, a former Queensland honorary consul to Thailand, is also a former adviser to former foreign minister Alexander Downer.
Mr Park and his wife Wasana ran the popular Thai Jumbo restaurant in Brisbane’s central business district for some years.
The couple also founded and sold several Siam Sunset restaurants in Brisbane’s southwest.
The Mycause page claims the family’s insurance does not cover Mr Park’s intensive care hospital treatment in Bangkok, nor specialist patient transport to evacuate him to Australia.
‘The Lifeflight team has generously offered to provide this delicate movement; however, the family needs our support to access these intensive care aeromedical support services.
“We want to do everything we can to ensure Andrew’s best chance of recovery, while reducing the pressures on Wasana and his children Campbell and Lachlan,” the page states.