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THE LOWDOWN: Accident - Help save Salavat Rakhmetov's daughter

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[Zalia Rakhmetov, 4 kb]Salavat's 5-year-old daughter, Zalia, sustained severe injuries when she was hit by a falling rock at a crag in Turkey. Surgery, treatment and transportation is very expensive, so please help by donating money, if you can.


For Euro Donations:
SWIFT-code: SABRRUMM011
SBERBANK (OPERATONS...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=54426

Some of these replies were posted on Björn's old blog website, and so won't be from registered UKC users
 Jack Geldard 01 Jun 2010
In reply to Björn Pohl: Anna from Mountain.ru emailed this through to me and it really is a heart breaking story.

From the mountain.ru website:

A dreadful accident happened about a week ago in Turkey with Zalia, a daughter of Salavat Rakhmetov, famous boulderingist, he won World Championship 2005 in Munich at the age of 38.
Sure, you've heard about him.

Salavat lead the pitch, his wife belayed, when huge block of rock fell down directly to their 5 y.o. daughter, she's still unconsciousness, in intensive care in a Turkish hospital, she has pulled through four surgeries (amputation of a hand, sewed big toe on a leg, stuck in the spokes of a broken arm and a leg).

But she needs one more heavy operation - damaged crashed skull fragments fell into the brain.

I hope they raise the money they need to save her. I know this has been covered in another thread, but with our news going a bit out of time today due to our new page going live, I thought I would bump this thread.

More info here: http://mountain.ru/article/article_display1.php?article_id=4496

Jack
 crabduck 01 Jun 2010
In reply to Björn Pohl: Paypal donations can be made here: http://sharmenhope.com/zaliya/
skullgrid 02 Jun 2010
In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

Awful. Hope she'll be alright.
 Jack Geldard 04 Jun 2010
In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC: The paypal donation page is doing okay - but I'm sure they still need more:

http://sharmenhope.com/zaliya/

Jack
John Elcock 04 Jun 2010
In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC: I sincerely hope this story has a positive ending and people do get behind this appeal.
 Milesy 04 Jun 2010
Best of luck to the wee lassie

It is crazy to think people moan about the NHS and take it for granted!
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