Financial support is arriving online for two women from Saskatchewan who were run over by a car in Las Vegas.
Katrine Sinclair and Charlie Foeowsky, both paramedics by Prince Albert, had traveled to Las Vegas on April 17 to celebrate Sinclair’s 21st birthday and his recent graduation from the paramedic school.
The two walked around the city when they were run over by a vehicle while they were at a crosswalk, according to Sinclair’s mother, Roberta Sinclair.
“It is the worst nightmare of a father when he receives a phone call that his son gets involved in an accident,” Roberta said.
Roberta said he received the news at 2:30 in the morning of April 19 that his daughter and Lastowksy had been seriously injured and were being taken to the University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
“Katrine suffered a fractured pelvis in three places, a broken rib, a broken humerus, and then we knew that he also had fractures in his vertebrae L3 and L5,” Roberta said.
He took a direct flight from Saskatoon to Las Vegas on Sunday.
“They were, and they are still, with a lot of pain,” he said, adding that the best friends are sharing a hospital room.
‘A great life lesson’
Shaylynn Naytowwow, who grew up close with Sinclair’s family, members of the Métis Nation, launched a Gofundme campaign that now circulates online to pay for medical invoices.
“I was very surprised because it’s like all my years of teenagers. [Katrine Sinclair] It grows, it just happened to me through my eyes, “said Naytowhow, who said he was” devastated and shocked. “
I wanted to include Derowsky in the collection of funds, despite not knowing her.
“I don’t know Charlie personally. I never had the opportunity to meet her,” he said. “But I felt that sense of inclusion. They went through the paramedical school together, they are friends and had this horrible accident together.”
The campaign, which had raised more than $ 66,000 until Tuesday night, said the girls were “far from home, without access to Canadian medical care and, more urgently, without health insurance to cover the overwhelming medical expenses.”
CBC could not get to the Derowsky family. Gofundme’s page said both young women suffered “serious injuries that alter life.”
Saskatchewan residents injured in a motorized vehicle collision, even when pedestrians generally qualify for the coverage without guilt of the Saskatchewan government insurance anywhere in Canada or the United States. Roberta said he was talking with SGI about coverage.
Meanwhile, the Gofundme said Disstowsky had partial insurance, and Katrine’s coverage stopped on his 21st birthday, hours before the collision in Las Vegas.
Roberta estimates that medical invoices cost approximately $ 200,000 and a medical evacuation could cost around $ 40,000. She said her daughter is moved by the support of the community.
“My health insurance expired on her,” Roberta said. “And being a girl, she didn’t buy additional medical insurance for the trip.”
He added that while his daughter is careful and responsible, he never imagined that something like this could happen.
“It’s a great life lesson,” Roberta said. “And he is one of those who hope that others can learn. You have to plan the unexpected moments of life.”
Now, the approach is to take the two women home.
Roberta says that families are working to organize a Medevac flight, hoping to return to Saskatchewan at the end of this week.
“We are pointing to Thursday,” he said. “But the biggest obstacle is to organize the air ambulance. A surgeon in Las Vegas needs to connect with a surgeon in the [Royal] University Hospital in Saskatoon “.
Roberta said they want the two women to travel together on the same plane.
Lyle Karasuik is Parkland Ambulance’s spokesman, Sinclair and Distowsky’s employer.
“Our team will be there for them no matter what [their] The needs are now and in the future, because that is what our family does, “said Karasuik.” We wish you nothing more than good health and we want to have them at home as soon as we can. “
Some of the largest donations come from the Dutchak family, which has the Parkland ambulance and its other employees.
There is still no police report
From the incident, Roberta has not received a police report or more details about the collision.
“We are trying to advance requesting the accident report. I submit an online application to publish it,” he said.
She has been in contact with the registration branch of the Las Vegas Police Department, but so far, it has only been told that the report is not yet available.
“The most difficult part is being stuck, just waiting for answers,” he said.
