Love Island star Courtney Stubbs asked her Instagram followers for help on Tuesday when she found a “seriously injured” man on the side of the road in Bali.
The Australian reality TV star, 26, and her partner Jack Millar discovered American tourist Nariman Vaziri, 34, in a “life or death situation” following a major car accident.
He took the man to the hospital in critical condition, but doctors were unable to operate on him without permission from a family member.
Stubbs uploaded a video to his 112,000 followers asking them to help find Vaziri’s family so he could receive life-saving surgery.
“It’s an emergency in Bali, we are trying to find details of this gentleman’s family,” she told her fans.
‘We have contacted the American consultation and they cannot contact his family. He is very seriously injured, it is life or death. We have tried to call everyone.
“We don’t know where he’s staying, we don’t know who he’s with, we just found him on the side of the road and took him to the hospital.
“He needs critical surgery but they (doctors) cannot approve it until we contact his family.”
Love Island star Courtney Stubbs, 26, (pictured) asked her Instagram followers for help on Tuesday when she found a “seriously injured” man on the side of the road in Bali.
Luckily, Stubbs was inundated with helpful messages from her followers and later revealed that she was able to find Vaziri’s mother.
‘We found Nariman’s mother! The hospital is in contact. “Thank you so much to all the people who have helped us,” she wrote alongside a selfie of her and Jack.
Stubbs and Millar, 29, went on to say that Vaziri successfully received the surgery he needed and is now in stable condition.
The Australian reality TV star and her partner Jack Millar discovered American tourist Nariman Vaziri, 34, (pictured) in a “life or death situation” following a serious car accident.
‘We have spoken to Nariman’s aunt on the phone. His father will come to Bali to be with him. “We’ll try to visit him in the hospital tomorrow,” Stubbs said.
Stubbs told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday that Vaziri “is in a serious but stable condition.”
“Out of respect for his family, we don’t want to share more,” he added, before revealing what the most heartbreaking part of this experience was.
“The saddest part of this whole accident is that he was surrounded by locals when they found him and no one was trying to help take him to the hospital.
‘They were just filming. Some men helped load him into the ambulance and we also pleaded with them.
Stubbs and Millar (both pictured) took Vaziri to hospital in critical condition and were forced to scramble to find his family so they could give doctors permission to operate on him.
“It is very important that people know that in emergency situations it is extremely difficult to contact ambulance services by phone,” he added.
‘Honestly, Jack and I didn’t hesitate to stop and help because we knew the hospital was nearby. It is simply the right thing to do.
‘His family will arrive in Bali tonight and tomorrow to be with him.
‘We have learned from this the importance of traveling with physical identification and having emergency contacts set up in person or on phones.
“Everyone deserves help in an emergency and we hope anyone else would have done the same.”
‘We have spoken to Nariman’s aunt on the phone. His father will come to Bali to be with him. We’ll try to visit him in the hospital tomorrow,’ Stubbs updated his followers hours later.
Following the accident, Stubbs urged his followers to protect themselves by establishing emergency contacts and medical ID on their smartphones.
“Please, if you have an iPhone or an emergency setup to set up emergency contact details, do it now,” he said on Instagram.
“If something is known about what happened to (Vaziri), if we had been able to contact his family sooner, something could have changed.”
Both iPhone and Android smartphones have emergency contact and medical identification options available to their users.