The Zhuhai Association of Taiwan Businesses has launched a fundraising campaign to help Taiwanese director Paul Lin (林伯勳), who is in critical condition in a hospital in Zhuhai, China, after allegedly being attacked by a homeless person he tried to help.
Lin’s family members on Monday were notified by the hospital that he was in a coma.
The Straits Exchange Foundation yesterday said Lin’s friends and relatives had asked the foundation for help, and that the Zhuhai-based association was trying to raise money to pay Lin’s hospital fees of about 16,000 yuan (US$2,430) per day.
Picture taken from Paul Lin’s Linkedin profile
The foundation said Lin’s family want to bring him back to Taiwan for treatment, but doctors at the Chinese hospital have said he cannot be moved because of his condition.
A medical plan to transfer Lin home would cost more than NT$1 million (US$29,650), which his family cannot afford, it said.
Foundation Vice Chairman Chou Jih-shine (周繼祥) said Lin had walked out of a pub at about 2am on Jan. 16, and upon seeing a homeless person sleeping at a bus stop, took off his coat and put it on the person.
Awakened by Lin’s action, the homeless person reportedly attacked him, stabbing him multiple times in the head, face and other parts of the body, Chou said.
Chou said Lin made his own way to a hospital, where he was admitted and treated, but he was discharged four days later after doctors there said that he was well enough to be released.
However, Lin’s condition deteriorated and he was admitted to a different hospital on Thursday last week and placed in an intensive care unit the next day, after it was found that he had an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in his brain, Chou said.
Lin’s family believes the director would receive better treatment in Taiwan and had telephoned the foundation to ask about repatriation procedures, Chou said.
Family members said they hoped the National Health Insurance system would pay for Lin’s hospital bills in China, but since Lin has been working in China for nine years and has not continued his payments, the insurance program cannot cover his medical costs, Chou said.
The family is already 30,000 yuan behind in Lin’s hospital fees, he said.
The foundation said it has asked China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits to report the attack to the police so the assailant can be apprehended.
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