Brit, 22, unable to walk or talk after horror fall while on holiday
30.06.2022 - 10:35
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A 22-year-old Brit has suffered life-changing injuries after falling from a buggy while on holiday with friends. Andre Franco has been in hospital for five weeks and has undergone a series of major surgeries following the horror accident Cyprus.
He has been unable to walk or talk since the fall, which happened on the morning of Saturday May 21 2022 in tourist hotspot Ayia Napa. Andre's mum Isabel Franco, 61, said the lads had been drinking heavily before taking the buggy out at around 6.30am local time.
Andre and a mate were both thrown off the back seat when the driver took a bend too fast. While his friend only suffered scratches from the fall, Andre cracked his head open, bleeding heavily and suffering major swelling to his brain.
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Speaking on behalf of Isabel Franco, Andre's godmother, Susana Costa, told MyLondon : "The fine details are still a bit hazy because the boys he was with, they panicked. They were inebriated, as you can imagine at that time in the morning in a place like that... they panicked, because they saw blood, and I think they just freaked out."
The boys managed to call emergency services straight away, and Andre was rushed to a local hospital then transferred to Nicosia General Hospital the same night. As Andre was taken to hospital, one of the boys called his mum in London to tell her what had happened.
Isabel and Susana got the earliest flight they could to Ayia Napa along with Andre's father Carlos, arriving on the Sunday and heading to the hospital first thing on the Monday morning. The women said they were terrified to see Andre after what the doctors had told them.
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