Surfing great to be evacuated to Australia as friend warns 'he'll die if he stays'

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A friend of critically ill surfing great Mark Richardson says his situation has become so dire that medical evacuation is his only chance of survival.

abc.net.au/news/mark-richardson-evacuation-lifeflight-bali-to-darwin/102905660Critically ill surfing great Mark Richardson will be medically evacuated from an Indonesian hospital to Darwin after efforts to transport donations of the rare A negative blood type proved unsuccessful.He is suffering internal bleeding and in desperate need of blood transfusionsRichardson was admitted to a hospital in Denpasar, Bali, 11 days ago with internal bleeding.

"There have been arrangements that have been made with LifeFlight I believe to emergency evacuate him out today." O'Brien on Tuesday said Richardson, who had coached him since childhood, had been "a massive part of my life" both as an athlete and friend. But Ms Meyer said that Richardson's insurance had begun working with LifeFlight, with the donated funds to be used to aid with his recovery instead.Mark Richardson surfing at Uluwatu in Bali.

 

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